The good weather is over since last night, when a 40 knots
wind started to blow during Carlos and Alberto’s watch. Let’s see how far we
get with the blog today because even though the computer is screwed to the
table, the keyboard and the chair aren’t
and it is not very comfortable to type in these conditions. We have now
nearly 30 knots, a slight improvement but still a bit rough.
Some work has been done this morning but in any case it is
being a rather easy day and people are keeping themselves busy in different
ways, I have continued the fight with my computer, some people are studying and
even finishing PhD thesis.
The “dead man” alarm startled us here in the bridge shortly
ago, what an awful name! Why not the “sleeping mate”, or “sleeping beauty”?
Anyway, it was three of us here but it seems the alarm did not like that we
were all comfortably perched on the furniture. We will have to stroll about and
gesticulate while we talk to keep the alarm off…
We have already sent the information on the ringed bird to
the appropriate website. By the way, we got a tip from Iceland and apparently
the bird was a barn swallow, not a housemartin. So much for my birding skills.
I can tell birds from fish but it seems that’s as far as I get. Housemartins or
barn swallows the fact is that we have not seen them today. They have lasted
quite a lot, I think, so far from land, without food and in this weather.
I am told there is a football match later today but I do not
sense the excitement of years past. I think the crew this year is not as much
into football as other years. In any case even if anybody on board wins the
pool, he / she will have to work nevertheless to the end of the survey, we
cannot afford loosing people, millionaires or not…
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| Second Mate Jose studying the charts |
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