Thursday - We left Torquay at 1900 Thursday night to night-sail towards Falmouth. There was a large submerged object reported at Falmouth that had sunk a fishing boat in 5 minutes the night before, it was only marked by an unlit buoy, so we decided to keep well clear. By the next morning we were sailing on towards Lizard and ready to turn towards Spain to cross the Bay of Biscay. The first night Chris and I took turns to stay up with Katy and Justin as they hadn’t night sailed before. The next morning we started our new watch symtem, split into three hour watches during the day and two hour watches at night.
Friday - The winds were very light as we crossed Biscay and we had to motor-sailed most of the way. By the second night we were running parallel to the shipping lanes and on both Justin’s and my watches one or two ships seemed very close to us. At first we were all very tired, we seemed to do nothing but eat, sleep and keep watch, after a couple of days the routine settled down and we all had a bit more time to enjoy the trip.
Saturday - Today we saw our first dolphins who joined us for twenty minutes of play time off the bow. Then a little bird, that we couldn’t identify, decided to hitch a ride, he was very tame, the children enjoyed him landing on their heads. He would fly out side and around the boat every now and again then come back inside to say hello. After a long rest he left us to go his own way.
Sunday – A lovely sunny day, but still no wind. Another little bird comes on board to join us who is also very tame and clearly exhausted from all the flying he has done. We have only sea, sky and Octopus for hours on end.
Friday - The winds were very light as we crossed Biscay and we had to motor-sailed most of the way. By the second night we were running parallel to the shipping lanes and on both Justin’s and my watches one or two ships seemed very close to us. At first we were all very tired, we seemed to do nothing but eat, sleep and keep watch, after a couple of days the routine settled down and we all had a bit more time to enjoy the trip.
Saturday - Today we saw our first dolphins who joined us for twenty minutes of play time off the bow. Then a little bird, that we couldn’t identify, decided to hitch a ride, he was very tame, the children enjoyed him landing on their heads. He would fly out side and around the boat every now and again then come back inside to say hello. After a long rest he left us to go his own way.
Sunday – A lovely sunny day, but still no wind. Another little bird comes on board to join us who is also very tame and clearly exhausted from all the flying he has done. We have only sea, sky and Octopus for hours on end.
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