Over halfway
MID ATLANTIC – AZORES
Excerpt from night watch –
Gill and Elaine are on the 2 am – 5 am watch. We are still on starboard tack (for the last 7 days) and the wind has dropped to sedate 10 knots. Nice and upright, none of this walking about the boat at 40 degrees like the Miller beer ads. Craic on board is great – Ian is taking all the ‘hits’ from Gillian like a real man and is enjoying the banter. He entered in the log – Skipper: “Alive and well”, Crew: “still being lippy but very loveable all the same …..” We think he is enjoying himself and getting used to us all. Gill is a real hit and he is gobsmacked by Sally. One day whilst trying to decide whether to drive off at speed or keep our height; she sat with the laptop and did a spreadsheet with Pythagoras calculations as to which was the most efficient angle to sail – or should we motor straight to the Azores? She used the boat’s polar charts and then tried to explain it all to Ian who listened for 5 mins and then eventually gave in!
