15.00 Local 17April
Course: 240°
Distance covered last 24hrs until 01h00 UTC: 86 nm
Distance to Galapagos: 382nm
Position 02°23 N 084°43 W
Well we are having a whale of a time out here.... never mind the floating rubbish, it's the large night time visitors that are a worry. In the early hours on Sandy's watch there was this blowing noise. After some checking, the whale/s were spotted. That was the end of Colin's sleep as he was hauled up on deck to check this lot out. The one far larger than our yacht, was on the surface a few meters away. We are 13m that would make them 15 - 20m...WOW (what a whopper). At times they were rather close with one blowing off the bow and his tail churning the water right next to the boat. Being full moon... okay almost... one could see them clearly but could do nothing to move out of their way as they seemed quite content to make our boats acquaintance ... must have been the music.
Sailing wise it's not going so well as the wind is not blowing and we are not going. Only 86nm is rather low even though we milked the breezes all day yesterday with genaker. This morning we had a massive rain storm and the wind did 180° shifts. We saw it in the dark just before the moon burnt out and left us in the dark. It was massive on the radar screen and we had no wind to sail away from it. It rained for about three hours and the left and we were sailing a glassy sea without a ripple on it. So on with the engine and burn up the diesel... very sad... seven hours of motoring and a light breeze is only now trying to push through... so off to see what we can catch in the sails. Till next time...
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