Author: Pete
Location: 07°48.444S 113°22.160W
Date: 11:00 April 7 to 11:00 April 10
Day 9 – 11 at sea.
This marks the longest we’ve ever been at sea so far and the half-way point of our passage! Our Panama to Galapagos passage was our longest to date at 9 days land to land. Pretty exciting. We’re some 1500 miles of the 3000 miles along. Had some rum and peaches to celebrate! I guess we’re the farthest from land that we’ll (hopefully) ever be on a boat. Celebrated with a little tasty (albeit weak) adult beverage.
The boat makes a wobbly fishtail motion when the bigger rollers come through from port aft (back left). The stern lifts to port, our bow swings slightly to starboard, we surf a touch with the wave as it passes under us, the autohelm kicks our rudders 5 degrees to port and our bow pulls back left and pitches up as the wave exits out from under our nose. When the waves are oncoming just right it’s graceful, like an airplane gently banking back and forth. When it’s not right there’s a lot of slapping and bucking. Story of my life.
No connection possible in the last couple of days. I think there has been heavy weather between Tayrona and the mainland. Having difficulty connecting.
It made me laugh when you defined “aft bow” – months of not knowing anything about what the hell you’re talking about nautically, and you decided that “aft bow,” probably the only words you’ve used that I’ve known, are the ones that needed defining. Funny.