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South Atlantic Ocean (23rd May - 17 June 2007)

Created on Tuesday, 26. June 2007.

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So there we were a couple of days away from the South American coast. It is in the early hours and while doing my two hour stint I’m standing at the chart table making notes and plotting our position and I hear the water slopping around. That in itself is not unusual. Sometimes the incessant noise of the water slopping, slapping and swishing past drives me to distraction. Somewhere on our music collection is a song and the words go “on the silent sea”. No way! While at the farm with Mom and Dad I relished the sounds of
silence. The cocks crowed every so often and a cricket hiding in a crevice chirped constantly but that was nothing. The place was quiet. Silence.

Back on the sea it is a never ending slap, slop, and swish but now tonight it sounds much closer than usual so I lift up one of the floor boards. To my horror I see the water in the bilge is almost up to the level of the floor boards. It is sloshing backwards and forwards like it has its own wave machine going.


 

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