Nearly 300 nautical miles

We have since leaving Cape Town covered close to 300nm.Alternating the
two motors every four hours we are doing between 7 something and 8
something kts.At the start we had a bit of westerlies on the beam
causing the swell also to come at us from the side.As the grib weather
file predicted the wind has backed to SW turning south and the swell
following suite.

We started cooking on the first day and our first supper was a sumptious
stew prepared by Liezel.Tonight Bernhard treated us to pap en wors and a
nice chilli gravy sided with some curry green bean salad.Suffice to say
there were no left overs on either occasion.

Later today we will cross the Orange River mouth and going wide around
to avoid the diamond mining areas and sand banks.Soon we will start
heading straight north and expect to arrive at Walvis Bay round about
noon on Sunday.We have one fishing line out but so far no go in that
area.

Everyone on board is well and enjoying the experiences to be had our
here.Our position at 1:30am on 28/10/11 is 29*41"S and 015*01"E.To get a
feel for where we are you can check our position on google earth.Wishing
you a most pleasant day.

Paul

Absolute Beginners

Once again we have the insane pleasure to transverse the oceans on a
stunning vessel ,this time not a sailing vessel but a motoryacht or more
precisely a re calls for slightly different tactics compared to a
sailing vessel and delivers a very different experience from a sailing
catamaran.We are propelled by two 150 Hp John Deer turbo aspired power
units,brand new and being taken care of as such.Not having sails we will
burn about 5 times more fuel than wirh a similar sized sailing cat.

We left Cape Town at about 7:30 am on 25/10/11 and our first stop is
Walvis Bay,about 700 nm up the Weswt Coast.We expect to arrive there
over the weekend and will load our bulk of fuel there before we cross
the amazing Atlantic via St.Helena.We will leave Walvis with about
4500 ltrs of fuel and will take on another thousand or so in Brazil.Our
end destination is Tortola in the B.V.I.'s ,about 6200 nm from Cape
Town.

On board we have in alphabetical order Bernhard ,Steven ,Liezel and
myself.Steven has done two trips with me before ,Bernhard and Liezel
will be crossing the equator for the first time.We are looking forward
to both an inward and outward journey finding new depths and scaling new
heights ,constantly evolving towards and shaping our destinies.Hopefully
a better understanding of this mystery we call "life" ,in all it's
facets.

We are after the experience of experiencing the stars ,the sun ,the moon
,the clouds ,the rainbows,the thunderstorms ,the ocean and all the other
manifestations of life anew.Look at it all through the innocence of
children ,be astounded ,be amazed ,be wowed.We find ourselves again at
that place or space where we are absolute beginners.If you want a taste
of what's it like out here ,welcome aboard.We will post daily ,enjoy.

Paul

Paul