Hello there ....its a beautiful sunny day out here .... Yay!
We are now officially back in the Western hemisphere having crossed the date line in the early hours of this morning from East to West :) Our position at 3.30 pm (GMT +1) on Tuesday Jan 16th is 18 deg 11.3 S and 001 deg 44.86' W . We have 263 miles remaining to St Helena and on a COG of 300 deg. Winds have remained nice at 12 to 20 knots and seas around 1.5m with easy motion. Our trusty spinnaker has been pulling us along nicely for many days and nights now!!!!
Based on the latest weather forecast, which shows winds dying a bit tomorrow, it looks like our arrival will be early morning on Thu 18th which will be a 10 day passage.
Guds made pancakes for breakfast this morning to celebrate another sunny day :) Lots of reading and listening to good music continues and is the daily routine aboard Cool Runnings.
Yesterday was washing day and after a full load of laundry the boat looked like a Chinese Junk with washing lines strung in all directions!
Last night at about 3am an alarm sounded.... When I went to the helm station to see what it was I got a bit of a shock when I read "depth alarm 41 feet". I have the alarm set at 50 feet in open ocean just to give ample warning if we approach any shallow area. I cancelled the alarm but continued to watch the depth sounding sit between 38 feet to 41 feet for about a minute. My guess is it might have been a whale below us but will never know. Even though it was pitch dark last night, we finally had the stars out again with no cloud cover :)
Finally, our deepest sympathies go to Guds brother's family of Volker, Jean, Isobel and Max in the UK who lost Jean's dad Frank after his passing over the weekend. We were so sad to hear the news last night, but we are grateful you just spent a wonderful Christmas with him. Take care of each other and our thoughts and prayers are with you all.
Anyway, that's about all our news so take care everyone.
All our love Dave, Guds, Ben and Gaby
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