Friday 4 March 2016
Amongst everything else going on, we received a lovely email saying we have been awarded the Award of Merit from the Ocean Cruising Club shared with others for helping out in Vanuatu after Cyclone Pam last year. We are very humbled, we honestly don’t expect this sort of thing. To us this award is received…
Wednesday 2 March 2016
Our final day at sea proved to be one with good winds in the 20 knot vicinity and lively boisterous seas. There don’t seem to be many of us crossing the Indian Ocean this year compared to last year but a month ahead of us are three boats, two of whom we’d met in Malaysia,…
Monday 29 February 2016
Day 7 dawned with sunny skies, a steady sea state of 1-2m waves and light winds. The parasailor had flown all night keeping us on course. The boat felt steady, we were no longer continually holding on and we could walk around comfortably. We were doing 5-6 knots, it was near perfect as we walked…
Sunday 28 February 2016
The wind went east yesterday meaning it was hard for us to stay on our rhumb line. Cruisers love rhumb lines and do their utmost to stick to them. It’s only racers who go veering off course chasing speed – nine out of ten times they are of course dead right but we shall not…
Saturday 27 February 2016
During the morning of day 5 we passed our halfway mark for the passage – always a good reason for some cheer. Just a paltry 560 nautical miles to go. We can almost smell that Sri Lankan curry! The weather forecast was spot on again as the winds blew 22-25 knots – but more sensational…
Friday 26 February 2016
Writing a blog in a sea tugging Adina this way and that makes for fun as you sway backwards and forwards with the laptop and the coffee that took twenty minutes to make tastes that much better. The weather forecast has been spot on; for most of the day the wind blew 17 to 20…
Thursday 25 February 2016
The winds throughout the day averaged 10-12 knots from behind, just perfect for the parasailor which flew happily all day long. With the light winds, our speed and resultant mileage is still on the low side but starting to improve with 133 nautical miles clocked for the day. Our thoughts are that we are in…