For the past two nights, Guppy has been sailing through lots of heavy lightning and squalls, making the night watches even more exciting. However, somehow the kids with Sander’s watch, always seem to get the worst of it with the most rain. We even tried swapping watches, but he still got the worst part haha. Yesterday night Florian and the kids suddenly saw a light between the streaming rain and lightning, but no ship on the AIS or radar, nor did the navigation lights make any sense. He decided to call the mysterious ship over the VHF but it didn’t answer. They kept watching closely and got even more puzzled when the light kept growing bigger, and also going up. There was lots of laughter when we all realized Florian had been trying to call the moon… But he is not the only person who did that, as I also know how it feels 😉 As soon as dawn arrives the sun chases the clouds away and the days are clear and lovely. Tim makes his morning round over deck to find all the dead flying fish and give them a proper Seamans (fish) burial. Oh, and we are already over halfway.
Laura
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Dear Laura, thx for updates. – Tim obviously has no concern to touch the fishes. (Remembers me, when I and my sibblings were kids, we saved frog spawn from drying-out by bringing it in our hands from one puddle to the next.) – Godspeed! Georg
Ja Laura, zo zijn de Hollandse weerhuisjes ontworpen hè. Als het mooi weer is komt het vrouwtje naar buiten en met slecht weer moet het mannetje eruit 😂.
Mooi dat jullie de kracht van de natuur ervaren, je krijgt er respect voor.
En het is heel dapper van Tim dat hij die vissen “begraaft”. Maak je er ook een foto van zoals van jezelf toen je een dode vis liet vliegen? 🤣
Goede vaart allemaal en succes op de volgende helft ⛵