[p]track4@lita
[pos] 49°21.07'N 164°02.88'W
[w] Wind ESE 7kts
[h] 039T
[sp] 6.1
[s]
d: 06.06.2018 01:56 GMT-0000
It has been another slow day. While being shaken and stired, we have watched the rolling mountains slowly loosing their snow caps and become hills. We tried a few things to aim higher north, but the sea state is still too rough to beat into it. We are now trying to sail parallel with the sea without picking up too much speed, which really is a tricky thing, but we found a good balance.
We have also crossed our beloved rhump line sometime early this morning at an angle of 50° at 1700 nautical miles of the full 2000. It has been an narrow miss, but still a miss. Looking at yesterdays forecast, I am sad to say, it doesn't seem likely we'll meet up again. You have been such a lovely rhump line and it really wasn't your fault, but nature decided we will have to part.
As I said early on this trip, in this kind of latitudes we are most likely in for a humbling. It is these times, when the sea restricts your possible goals to a narrow window and tells you in no uncertain way, that you are here on her mercy and this is the direction you will be going for some time to come. You can still act tough and unconcerned if you wanted to go that way anyways, but if not - well, there is your humbling. Thanks for that as well, dear fourties. And if you are still miffed about my snotty comment earlier, then let me say you successfully restored your ill reputation.
We will be leaving the fourties tonight and are awaiting a calmer welcome from the fifties. However the wind direction will make us bear away even more to the east for a while, before we can aim again at our new destination: The Shumigan Islands. Here we come!
All well aboard. We had a sunny, warm spell (13° inside the boat) around noon today, some fun in the gallay and yummy warm pankakes. Highlight of the day!
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