Hello all!
I arrived on Friday to be greated at the airport by Alan, Stu and Laura, smiling from ear to ear, as it means no extra night watch now I've arrived!!! The first port of call was the local cafe for a full english breakfast.
I had a quick look around the boat, clean and tidy. However, when I was told that they had bought all the essentials I could only find a huge cupboard of kit kats, sweets and biscuits! But they had managed to buy a large sack of onions and potatoes - so off to Morrisons we went.
One overflowing trolley of shopping later and we were set for sea.
Saturday began with a clear sky and a good forecast. We left the marina and headed out into the Gibraltar Straits into 30 knots of breeze on the nose. With a speed over ground of 2 knots, it wasn't the most upbeat start to the voyage!! However, a beautiful sunset, calm seas throughout sunday meant a little too much use of the engine, but an easy start to Lauras' first offshore passage.
Monday morning began with the wind filling in a nice 10-12 knots from the NW, Alan managed to get the cruising shute up, which we flew all day until the wind started to increase around half an hour ago.
So far we've seen a pod of pilot whales, a loan turtle and a sparrow who hitched a lift for a few miles.
At 1200 UTC today we were in position 33.52N 08.42W or 250 miles from Gib, around 50 miles off the coast.
Hope everybody at home is well,
Love Margaret xxx
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