Two days after leaving Cape Verde to our left and having spent days to
get West our studies of the infanmous Doldrums showed that passing them
westerly would land us in the worst part of them so we headed nackEast.
I had the feeling we spend at least a day going nowhere and it fel like
waiting for the inevitable to happen. Like marmots heading for the
abyss. Though there aare no signposts telling you when you have arrived
at the doldrums actually being there is obvious. The clouds are enormous
and the variety of species makes for a great chane compared to the
fluffy tradewind clouds. The wind is changing almost every half hour and
as a result our 17 dat spinaker run has come to n end. Our 68 foot
rolling world has changed into a heaving and listing one. We are all
handicapped and need to learn how to move on the boat again. My loo
visit was an interesting experience and the ubicle seemed too small to
pull up my trousers again. Luckily there was no-one about. We have had a
small problem with our watermaker and it seemed we were on our way to
loose our first position in in the fleet in order to obtain additional
fresh water but luckily we managed to get the thing going again.
Hopefully we can keep our current speed and the wind up and squeeze out
of the Doldrums without much problem.
