(Night of day 7)…. Flying into the cockpit! This time it hit my face, while I was sleeping, with full force! I managed to get it back to the water, wings intact! They actually have wings! Long night ahead of me… 00.00 to 06.00 and hopefully without too much excitement, just good wind and moderate waves, I asked for. I made it to 04.00 of dozing off and waking up every 25 min. We had noticed that we were within 20 nm of a traffic lanes as lights started to appear. Our AIS must not be receiving other ships signals as nothing showed up on plotter, which I had relied on for the past hour. I hailed CBC Norfolk to say they appeared on our starboard and I could see their starboard lights. Is this correct? “Yes correct, we will pass stbd to stbd with 1 nm inbetween”. Yikes 1 nm is not a lot, I thought! I thanked them and they they said “good watch. Out” good watch… hardly I should have been on radar an hour ago… after that I counted 4 more tankers pass through and that was it. There was no need to hail any others as they all would have heard me talking to Norfolk. Another hour went by and then I asked for shift change early as 6 hours was too long tonight! I slept in the cockpit until 8.30☺️
Goodmorning!
At 09.00 we gybed and pointing straight for the Marquesses. This made my morning!!! Now, a hard boiled egg, coffee with milk and a toothbrush!
09.27: N16*37.870 W119*14.818
COG: 200* SOG: 6.5kn
Radar is clear with no targets, no flying fish in my face, self steering is happy, peeking a hard boiled and waiting for coffee to appear in my hand ☺️ . out 👩✈️
Hanging out is easy! Today is a big day for making some good headway! Reefed main, reefed Genoa and my daily plotting on paper-chart is done!
I keep in touch with fellow sailors who are within 300 nmiles of me and also fellow sailors on land who are advising from afar. It’s been good to compare notes and cross check with my own calculations! Some of them seem really knowledgeable in regard to weather routing but doing this crossing is everyone’s first time! It’s so nice to have company out here. This passage is bringing me to another level of learning and living life. Words can not describe of how I feel! ❤️Truly mind-blowing❤️
Sailaway Sarantium 