35o 57.9 North 39o 06.6 West
Fish hooked today 2
Fish landed 0
We had a busy morning on Jem today I was on the 0600 to 0900 watch and thought I would have time to organize our photos, do my daily gum treatment, get a draft of the blog done and bake some muffins . . . but it was not meant to be.
My watch started out like an English morning no rain but gray and a bit chilly. Before I knew it, Brian and Mark were up, breakfast was in the works and the day was underway. Within an hour, Jim (known to some as Jimmy Jazz) joined us, we had the large spinnaker up, we had a visit from some dolphins and we had hooked two fish. The morning came to a perfect ending with some fresh bacon sannis (translation: sandwiches) on great rolls baked by Brian and bacon fried by Jim.
Unfortunately, all good things must come to an end the dolphins didnt hang around long, they didnt jump into the air for us to photograph, the hooked fish somehow came off the hooks, and some nasty looking weather on the horizon convinced us to take the spinnaker down. Shortly thereafter, we had our first real rain storm of the journey foul weather gear had to come out . . .
What we really mean is that Jim, who was on watch, was pushed out into the cockpit with his foul weather gear while we, slamming the hatch shut to keep us dry, cowered below in the warmth reading our books occasional passing up mugs of tea which Jim seems to be able to survive on indefinitely.
Tea yes, that very British beverage. I cant tell you how many cups Ive drunk since I started this journey in Fort Lauderdale 24 days ago. But, Im sure we are in the gallons. We seem to have tea multiple times a day . . . at breakfast, after breakfast, late morning, before lunch, after lunch, early afternoon, mid afternoon, official tea time, pre-cocktail hour, after dinner, before bed, etc. We tend to have just regular tea although herbal/erbal teas have made the rounds on occasion. Our consumption have tea has risen quite dramatically with Jims arrival he seems very partial to the stuff.
Okay, one last thing how is our progress? We left Florida on March 29 at 1025 AM. Eight days later we had covered 951 miles and arrived in St. Georges, Bermuda. We took a week off and then set off on the next leg leaving on April 13th at 1030 AM. In these next eight days, weve covered 1,346 miles and, according to our trusty GPS, we have 621 miles to go. We are thinking that, if the weather holds, we might arrive by Friday night . . . Thus, we are now a little more than 2/3rds of the way on this Bermuda-Azores leg. But, like a long haul flight, its that last part that seems to take longer than you might think . . . so we are discussing what we might do upon arrival, what we would like to get done before we do arrive, etc . . . I still have not gotten to my Portuguese language CDs and I sure have a lot of books left to read . . . I better get to it!
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