Hi There,
We are approaching the bottom end of Madagascar and, as warned, we are in for some heavy weather. The barometer is dropping, the waves are getting bigger and the swell is getting larger and coming from several directions. We are not yet into the frontal system proper so I guess tomorrow we will not be eating any hot food! It was very difficult cooking today, both boys area bit seasick and I have a migraine!
Our news: At the moment we are trying to raise a ship on the radio as he is heading directly for us and we have to warn him that we are in his path. He is approx 5 miles away now.
John caught another 1.2m Mahi Mahi so we ate some of it for dinner and put the rest in the freezer. They are really beautiful fish and it seems so sad to kill them.
Dimitri was bum up in one of the lockers this morning and did some cleaning of electrical points and now the radar seems to be working.
We have just managed to raise the ship so hopefully he will pass us safely.
We had a scare the night before last as our mainsail jammed in the furler and we could neither take it out or put it away. We were looking at the prospect of having to go up the mast and cut it away before the bad weather as we cannot have too much sail up in the blow to come, but thankfully Dimitri managed to gradually work it loose and now it is working A. Ok.
The ship is passing us now, pretty close but safe!
Yesterday we had a pod of about 20 dolphins around us. They were quite show-offs, jumping right out of the water. They stayed with us for about 1/2 hour. That was just after a squall had come through, leaving us with two beautiful rainbows – quite a day!
Anyway, that is all our news for now. Keep safe and happy.
Dimitri and Arti.
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