Hi Everyone,
I hope all is well. This evening I have been treated to a spectacular light show – lightening on both sides, on my left, snaking from cloud to cloud and on my right, great big tentacles snaking into the water. This is one of the nightmares for a sailor, with nothing else around and a great big metal mast acting as a lightening conductor! If lightening does strike the boat, it generally “fries” all the electronics on board! I switched off all equipment except for the autopilot (nothing like sailing blind) and then all I could do was sit back and watch the show. Fortunately we seemed to have picked a path between the two storms and they are now behind us, so we should be safe. Other than this, all is quiet. We have a flat sea, little wind and are motoring along to help the sails. We are now in the middle of the Mozambique channel, over the Natal basin. Just 526 nm to go to Durban... We are seeing much more shipping now, with a lot of very big tankers, over 900 ft. long either going towards the Atlantic or going towards Asia. These are ships which are too big to go through Suez and have to go around the Cape of Good Hope. When we feel they are going to come too close to us, we call them on the radio and they are all very polite and will alter course to give us a wide berth. It is reassuring to know that they can see us both on AIS (automatic ship identification) and radar as usually fibreglass vessels are invisible on radar.
That’s all from me folks.
Hugs and kisses
Arti and Dimitri
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