Our first full day of sailing. We reached 30 degrees North Latitude early this afternoon and turned right now heading exactly due East. Our Captain tells us we are going to stay heading exactly this direction for the next 5 ½ days until we turn North again into the Azores.
A quiet day today as we catch our sea legs and spent a lot of time walking around to familiarize ourselves with the ship.
Did a quick check on our in cabin path and find that we are now at 71 degrees longitude and 30 degrees latitude heading east at 21 knots. The ocean depth where we are right now is 210,000 feet (yes that is two hundred ten thousand feet or roughly 40 miles deep which I didnt think was possible)
Awesome dinner again tonight. For me started off with a orange civeche (sp), followed by Roast Duck and Cherries Jubilee for desert. Sherry started with a shrimp cocktail, followed by roast beef and finishing off with double chocolate cheesecake.
Mileage today is going to be 1/6 of our total distance to the Azores or 431 miles for a new grand total of 3534 miles.
Cold today on the Atlantic at about 70 degrees F but with a 60 km / hour wind feels a whole lot colder.
Updates soon.
Brian and Sherry
Hey sailors!
ReplyDeleteWOW! I missed a couple days due to lack of computer (still) so I had a fair bit of reading to catch up on! Superdome was cool, yes? Did you get to meet Mickey? Brian, I didn't know you ever did sweat, really???? :) When is the rock climbing? Man, I am full of questions! Keep rockin' the boat, and my personal word of advice: watch out for icebergs! Can't wait to hear more! Bring on the Azores!