L'Eau Commotion Westabout

9:00pm Saturday 14th July 2018 ( UTC-9 )
For a little while there it looked as if we were going to get a move on but just can’t crack that 6 knot average I was hoping for. Needless to say it has been pleasant sailing but the complete absence of seabirds has been put down as the reason for zero interest in my trailing lure. I did a stocktake of beans fish rice and flour which guarantees a balanced but bland and boring diet for the remainder of the journey. Ross mentioned the possibility of collision with shipping containers and I know people on trips such as mine have modified the forward sections of their yachts with collision bulkheads and inbuilt flotation but I have never seen the need myself. No doubt these hazards exist but in my 70,000 odd miles of sailing the high seas and 25 years of fishing the Great Barrier Reef I have never seen one or for that matter heard of one being washed up on a reef or beach anywhere so I think the chances of striking one are quite small.