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Timshel - Galapagos to Marquesas Day 3



Unfortunately motored most of the night. More swallowtail gulls around the boat, quite spooky with their strange clicking call and they are all white on the underside. My book says they are the only night feeding gull in the world, you don't see them during the day. Fortunately didn't see any factory ships or run into any whales in the dark. The stars disappeared - it had clouded over. Then most exciting got a bit of wind at 0430 and set the yankee as well as the main to motorsail, then it came on to rain heavily - the first rain since before Panama I think, and I suddenly realised I needed to shut all the hatches, then it all went away, back to motoring. Presumably this is the doldrums, but it was hardly a squall. More wind as I handed over to Steve at 0600 and we set main, yankee and staysail on a close reach and actually turned the engine off for a bit (think he also got wet). Guess that is all we can do, try to sail whenever there is a little wind to give the engine a chance to cool down and save fuel. Everyone is getting very chatty on the SSB net - must be getting bored and all desperate to find wind. Misto's weather guru says no proper wind until you get to 7 deg south!

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