day 4 started with a rather annoying swell, that led to little sleep. the wind was constant ENE between 18-25kn and had us travel with good speed. maloo is currently doing around 160nm a day which is quite good for a loaded up barge like her ( I reckon we added another 1,5 tones to her 10,5 before we left!)
again we had lot of dolphins and I never get tired of looking at them...this time they were spotted like dalmatians;)
the day went by rather uneventful, which is good (because events usually mean that something is broken) - we currently try fix, what we think might be a loose rudder bearing, but nothing major to be concerned about.
the constant heavy rolling due to those messy swells is rather exhausting - physically, because you constantly have to hold on to things and balance, and on the nerves, because simple things like poring a cup of tea turns out to be a real circus stunt!
so instead of the usual 10-12 second wave passing underneath, we have 6-8 second swells rather steep (which is a bit more mediterranean than atlantic)
night 4 was a roughy too! mark had 30kn constant on his shift and very messy seas - the wind died down on Steve's shift and started to go funny on mine - I had to dodge a couple of rain-sqalls. It was great to ride the wind behind them though with 8,5 to 9kn.
it's great though to have the wind even when it is a bit on the stronger side...sitting in these waves with no wind would be a real disaster.
slowly but surly the temperatures rise...I suppose the "Adventsengerl" had to wear a lighter outfit than back home in austria when it dropped the adventskalender off.
can't believe it's only 24 days till christmas...and hopefully only another 15 days for us to st.lucia
oh -lunch was a nice wrap with beef, avocado and mango lime chutney (without the beef for me) and last night it was x-treme bbq-ing for mark doing pork chops on the webber on high seas - and a salad.
today it will be homemade carrot-ginger-pumpkin soup with (also homemade) turkish bread for lunch and most likely roast chicken or bangers and mash for dinner (or maybe we do manage to catch a fish today!?)
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