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Ensemble - Day 66 (14 March 2012): Happy Birthday Joel



Greetings from yacht Ensemble.

Today the wind picked up a bit to 15 knots - and we managed reasonable speed, although more South than I would have wanted. Seas were calm - and none of the threatening squalls materialised.

Neither did the fish (despite the slower trawling speed). Try as we might we couldn't catch a Tuna for Joel. Those Japanese fishing vessels really must have cleaned them out! (We have seen 3 Japanese fishing boast in 4 days - the only ships we've seen).

Kindly, the Gunvor passed on the fleet positions by Email - so we now know where we are in the fleet. It looks very spread out - with over 400nm between the first and last boats. We're pretty much in the middle of the fleet - but further south than the other boats.

It was Joel's birthday so Magali cooked up a storm.

We started with pancakes for breakfast.

Magali then went on to make banana bread. Then, (as Murphy's law dictates) - we ran out of gas. We can't complain - we'd had the one bottle since Gibratar - and while we had plenty of spare camping gaz - we had to muck around changing the fittings for the bottles.

We had our usual sunset rendevous - with Australian 'Chandon' sparkling and watched a spectacular sunset.

And for dinner we had cheeseburgers with an apple and cognac Tarte Tartan (and birthday candles).

All in all - a good day.

Cheers

Dave


14 March 2012 011


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