POS: 22d 57'S, 38d 41'W
Wow Rio is ridiculously far away. We've been pottering along for 23 days now & still she lies beyond the horizon! Someone really should put that in the brochure. Team morale is good though! Only Dirty Dorris (chugging along next to me) is still rather temperamental about life, running fine for 40 minutes & then suddenly descending into a sullen gurgle before dying. Life is kept interesting by Bookie Derek's gambling fund. We've been placing bets on ETA; Murray going for an optimistic 17:30 (on Monday of course) while Mike, Andre & others going for the cautious 19:30+ times.
Good winds & big swell gave us a cracking 160 mile odd day yesterday & we're hoping the trend sticks around. Several crew members have read Murray's copy of "Life of Pi" & the general feeling is things could be far worse. Being short one Tiger, one Hyena & having our Life Raft firmly strapped to the Coach roof, out of use, are all factors that keep us smiling. No one has eaten anyone else either. Yet.
Last night Mike & Alex caught the last of the dreaded Time-Change-Shifts. Since we go through 5 different time zones during our trip, if you're on shift as we sail into a new time zone then the clocks get turned back an
hour regardless & you basically end up doing an extra hour of shift! The turn over inconveniently fell during the "Death Watch" shift - from about 9pm to 5 Am when you get to see neither sunset, sunrise or the better side of your pillow. So making the best of it, the guys decided to have a Time Change party; incorporating Jelly babies, coffee, Eet Sum Mor biscuits, super-C's & pretty much anything they could scrounge. It was all crowned off when they woke the rest of the crew to partake in the final offerings of Fruit Cake & Custard!
246 Nautical miles to go (that's 442.8km) & counting!
No comments:
Post a Comment