Well I well and truly spoke to soon yesterday, here we are still. The forecasted increase in breeze never came, now it is still lighter than expected and not quite from the direction we expected. Anyway you’ve got to play with what you are given.
We currently are in the midst of having a drag race to the finish with Unicef and Dare To Lead morning fellas. Hey Mik, we have left some tobacco for you about 8 miles back on a fishing pot with lobster in it. I'll send you the Lat and Long so you can collect it, and I’ve left the umbrella at the same place for you Dale. Enjoy!
Last night we played dodgems with fishing boats. At one time we counted about
35. We weaved our way through them as they were pottering about doing less than
1 knot. They do try and keep out of your way which does help, they all seem to
have AIS but you can’t rely on that. It’s a constant. Right now I have four in
front of us on AIS. How many can you actually see, so far our tallies match, I
guess tonight will be the same.
Today is our engineer extraordinaire’ s birthday, Happy
Birthday Glenn Manchett. Glenn needs to be kept busy, which is good for me as
things get fixed before they are even broken.
My favourite Glenn story starts in the heads. He was in there when the genny
was running one day, came out saying the genny sounds slightly different, I
will investigate. So this tiny noise he went to hunt down, a man well and truly
in tune with, well not nature but smelly, loud things.
Upon his return from the engine room he was holding a Leatherman which had been
used by someone left behind and fell into the genny. After being in there for
months it finally moved itself a little thus creating a new noise, but old
super sleuth found it, and I was able to reunite it with a maintenance staff
member who had put out an email way back in Gosport saying he had left it on a
boat somewhere, sometime and couldn’t remember where or what boat. We knew
whose it was as it had been a gift and was engraved, what a happy ending. Glenn
has elected to be on Mother Duty for two days in a row, said he likes to keep
busy so Happy Birthday and Happy Mother’s Day.
Less than 100nm to go, I'm not even guessing at an ETA just yet, but hopefully that wine is already being cooled.
The battle will continue to the end, thanks for reading and all your support.
How’s the serenity, ours is soooo close!
Love youse all