Monday, December 1st, 2008
This morning dawned bright and sunny with the sea settling down to a steady groudswell from the North
West.
Had a really good breakfast this morning, nothing fancy but it sure
tasted good, amazing what a couple of days of bad weather does for the appetite. The diesel galley stove
refused to light during the gale so today is the first day that it has worked since the day after
Thanksgiving.
Working in the galley, our watch cleans it after supper each day, when they were trying to light the stove
really did a number on my stomach. Enclosed spaces, diesel fumes and big seas are a bad combination.
This morning all is well and I was famished by the time I heard those delightful words “Watch below”
We should be in Essaouira Morocco by this evening. The Captain will then decide if we can anchor or if
we will have to stand off till the swell subsides.
With luck I will be able to let everything dry out, including me, before I have to go on watch again this
evening.
We arrived in Essaouria around 3:00 this afternoon after motoring in as the wind had dropped away to
almost nothing. Still pretty big swell running though. This is a pretty exposed anchorage but it looks like
we should be OK as long as the wind doesn’t pick up from the West.
Lots of fortifications here, mostly built by the Portuguese I believe.
Should be a cool place to explore.
Thanks for reading
KJ
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