Wednesday, April 22, 2009trouble aheeed....
A grey day but still pretty calm. V slow rowing. No fish today but a lot of birds following, indeed we were victim to a muttonbirds bombing run where he strafed the carrot and her captain with Sh*#te! I have put the fishing line out tonight with a lightstick attached to see if that will attract 'em... Gonna be harder than it looks this landing lark. We are to all intents and purposes like a hot air balloon - at the mercy of the winds. From tomorrow evening until Tuesday the wind goes into the North with some 40-50kt winds during those days so problem is looks like we'll be shoved South of Stewart Island. Still at least we're still in deepish water and near the 1000m depth contour which is where will be pushed into, so deeper water...(deeper water = less bad seas). Have to just see how well the para anchor slows our drift to the South. We are between 55 and 75nm from various bits of land - to put in in comparison my old boat could cover that in 2 maybe 3 days...the carrot...God knows....posted by Olly Hicks @ 3:09 AM
