Still smiling
16 June 2011 | Still somewhere off the Nova Scotia coast
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Currently at 43 37'N 58 46'W. The decision to circumsail the low pressure trough via the east was the right one, we now start to get more favorable backside winds. Not much to report about the last few days. Grey weather, a few whales, dolphins and moon fish here and there. Instead of catching fish, we caught two seagulls yesterday (no, they don't get Spanish sherry down their gills, we simply unhook their feet and throw them back in).
This morning, we were greeted by dolphins and a lonely oil tanker. Even saw a sunray far away! Sea is pretty quiet, large rolling Atlantic swell, wind died down. 40Nm off Sable Island, 130Nm off Nova Scotia, 350Nm to go to Newfoundland.