BUMPY!

17 March 2013

Well, after a pretty awkward start it would appear that after much examination of weather gribs and doing what we could, we are finally getting to the trade wind belt. We have just had the longest, and I regret to say, bumpiest, sail of this leg. May it last! Somehow we ended up in the very place we did not want to be, but we had been constrained by having to make use of what wind there was at first, whatever the direction it came from, in order to conserve our diesel resources. The area we have had to put up with is renowned for flukey winds, as well as sudden, strong rain squalls. We can verify that this is all true, having been becalmed, then blown to bits, then drowned in copious rain showers. The resemblance to sailing round Scotland is remarkable - except the weather is warmer.

So now we look forward to what we hope will be sailing days at last. 
It was too bumpy to knit - how sad is that! But we did manage to have the bread baking. Joint effort to weigh the flour though, no way the box was going to stay on the scales without Dave's strong hold on it. As well as his careful transfer of the bowl of flour, yeast etc. from the weighing station to the work bench.

7 deg 34 S and 98 deg 24 W