At 08:00 this morning Jan Pieter called to say they were south of Ireland and heading towards the channel. It was foggy, misty, and grey. They say everything is wet, messy, sticky, dirty and "definitely not a Lesley day" Martin called out in the background! It is is starting to wear on them a little. They have not seen the moon since they left. They have 2 reefs in the main and one in the jib and are travelling at 6.5 to 7 knots with a SSE wind Beaufort scale F5.
It sounds, to me, as though they will head for land at the first opportunity they get which will be Falmouth harbour on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday....depending on the weather, of course.
I wanted to say they are "itching" to get to land but then Joanne will call out the "pun police" on me again! (See comments to "Mokum Comes Through with Flying Colours")
As I was talking to them I mentioned that I was writing everything down for the blog and they said they think we are having more fun with the blog than they are at the moment!
Grey is certainly not their favourite colour....
2 comments:
Don't give up hope! They will get there,"and de laatste loodjes wegen het zwaarst".Especially if everything is wet and dirty. That is exactly like all the campers here in Holland have to endure, but better weather is promissed to us, and it is coming from the west.
Just a friendly hello from back here in Canada... you are so close now ... soon you will have your feet back on solid ground and a very big achievement logged in your life experiences book.
Good for all of you. Don Egley.
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