Day 6 Uruguay to Brazil
Noon Position 15deg 56S 38deg 21W
Course – 358 Degrees Speed – 9.5 Knots Day’s Run – 230 Miles
Weather – Blue sky with the odd rain cloud and flat blue seas
Wind – 5 knots from W
Today’s News
We saw our first flying fish yesterday afternoon and turtles today. We are definitely back in the tropics. This morning we saw something I have never seen before, small wooden fishing boats herding ships away from their nets. They stop in the path of the ship and force it to alter course and keep forcing it until the ship is past the nets. Some of these nets go on for miles. Another first for me is seeing a fisherman in a small rowing boat 40 miles offshore. These guys have the sense to get out of the way of us and the ships.
We still have an ETA in Salvador at 0700 tomorrow and with time to spare this morning I went on a 2 mile detour to a rain cloud to give themasts a good rinse but unfortunately on arrival at the cloud the torrential rain abruptly stopped and all we got was a beautiful rainbow. The masts will have to wait for a rinse.
JC