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Position: 38°36.13'N - 041°42.69'W
Speed: 5.0
Direction: 076T
AT:
5/23/2013 - 7:58 PM UTC
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Day 9 - Second Leg - May 23 2013
-Nautical miles traveled today - 167.5 - Total traveled: 1480.4 (yesterday's
total should of read 1313.0
Weather - overcast with sunny periods - eerie
looking sky as the front is still around use - seas, well let's just say it is
hard to believe we are at sea as it is MORE then CALM. Winds averaged 3-5 kts
throughout the day. Motoring since 9:00 am - did have a wonderful night of
sailing.
We started off the morning with hoving to as we needed to make
water and fill our reservoirs with some fuel and everyone took a nice hot
showers. No sooner did everyone get settled back in that poof, the winds died.
We are managing our fuel as we are now consuming our back up ... So on goes the
motor but as oppose to motoring at 7 kts we are doing a meager 5. We are not the
only ones in the fleet in the same position ... as though this can be a comfort
zone of sorts.
So what do 4 people and one dog do to keep busy. We look out at
the ocean and start imagining things; like ... are we really on the planet earth
as we can see the ocean rolling off into somewhere - we are feeling almost
suspended in air lost in the eerie looking sky.
If you see some zig zagging on
our track that is because we were so bored that we started investigating these
brown looking balls that were floating in the distance ... ended up being
turtles who were more then likely just as bored as us ... so many turtles .
We
then had a dolphin swim around the boat and do a little show for us and
discovered some orange things floating around which ended up being some sort of
jelly fish. Oscar had his hair brushed on deck and was actually playful.
Well
that pretty much concludes the excitement on NYCTEA for today.
Crew is well and
smiling.
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