Saturday May 16,09
Woke up this morning to a bright, sunny but cool day.
The winds are out of the North so the Captain says we will need to motor for the next few days. Blah! I
hope by the time we get closer we will be able to set sail.
We left the dock about 11:00am with a pilot aboard and motored out of the channel and into the open
Atlantic. Once the pilot was off we had a fire drill and then broke into our sea watches.
So we are off on the final leg of this journey back to Lunenberg, the ship’s home port. I still can’t really
get my head around the fact that my 6 months at sea are coming to an end.
On the plus side my youngest daughter is going to be waiting on the dock when we arrive, which will be
really cool! I hope the weather is nice so she doesn’t get wet and or frozen while waiting for us.
More later…
Just finished our afternoon watch. The wind is a strong force 4 from the NE with a heavy 6-8′ swell
coming in from the East. Definitely a lot of rockin and rolling.
My trick at helm was tough. We are motoring with the fore and aft sails set to get some advantage from
the wind and steady out the roll a bit. As the ship rolls her heading changes which changes the wind
pressure on the sails and causes her to round up or fall off from the course. To make matters worse the
wheel has recently been varnished and does not have th turks head lashing that marks the top most spoke.
Tricky.
The temperature is dropping as the Sun sets so I suspect it will be time for the boots and fowlie pants on
watch tonight. The skies are clear and the water is a very cold looking dark dark blue.
So day one of this 7 day passage is done, 6 to go :-)
Thanks for reading
KJ
No comments:
Post a Comment