Spectacular Dolphin Display!
We are having a fantastic time and eating very well. Toast, Cereal and Yoghurt for breakfast, lunch was Sallyanne's Spicy Chicken P-Nut Butter Curry with salad and avocado, followed by a Mars Ice-cream. Last night Jonathan cooked a very tasty steak (medium rare – to perfection) with carrots and asparagus followed by some rice-pudding! This morning (Wednesday) we will have our first Wednesday Full English Fried Breakfast; Bacon, Sausage, Grilled tomatoes, Heinz Baked Beans fried eggs. For lunch pesto pasta and tonight home made pizza for our Wednesday 'Movie, Pizza and Pop Corn' night !
More Dolphins! There was great excitement again on ASOLARE as the crew were once again treated to a spectacular Dolphin display. (See Jon's magnificent photo of Clare watching a pair of Common Dolphins leaping clear of the Water) I hope other boats are having as much enjoyment from these playful creatures. The best spot of all was last night when we put on our mast 'deck light' to check the telltales and discovered that ASOLARE was surrounded by Dolphins – you could just make them out whizzing and zipping about like a dark mysterious shadows – not dissimilar to the Harry Potter Reapers!
Yesterday Sallyanne ran the ARC Net for Group D and very much enjoyed the experience. Unfortunately the Other Net Controller 'One Too Many' has developed a Comms problem and a second yacht managed to relay a message of apology last night that they would unlikely be able to run the Net.
We also had an email problem yesterday which meant a delay in WCC in Cowes receiving the SSB position reports. After 2 hours (on and off) via SAT Phone to a help desk we managed to get the email back up late evening yesterday.
As for the lack of Net Controllers in our Group it is rather fortunate that all the crew aboard ASOLARE are willing to have ago! After I have run today's Net I am going to invite other Yachts from Group D to make a one-off guest appearance as Net Controller in order to increase our Groups overall experience of using and relaying messages using the SSB/Radio Procedures.
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