Author: Scott
The day started off with a little decent wind, and then all of a sudden there was absolutely no wind, just Pam, Tseen the movie “Master and Commander” there is a scene where they are becalmed and the ship just sits ournesol and myself slogging around in the ITCZ. It was HOT today! If you have there with sails sagging in the blazing heat, well that was us today. In the movie a shunned crew member must jump to his fate in Davy Jones’ locker before the wind would return, we have not had to resort to that extreme yet. Further north from our position is the Hors Latitudes, this is the latitude where the Pacific High settles in and due to the high pressure there is very little wind produced. This region is called the Horse Lattitudes because when sailing vessels of old were becalmed and water was in short supply, the crews would offload the horses in the middle of the Pacific to save the drinking water for themselves. Pam and I do have plenty of water, so there will be no offloading of anyone if we remain in the ITCZ with little wind.
We didn’t fish today because it was so hot, but we are convinced that there are a few out there. Over the past few days we have found a number of small flying fish on deck and one bona fide real fish. By the time we find them, they have hardened in the sun and you have to pry them off with a paper towel. Not much good for eating, perhaps we can start making key chains out of them.
The wind did finally pick up with dinner (Cappelini Alfredo with chicken) and the moon was unbelievable bright. We ended our hot becalmed day at sea, under a beautiful moon, gently sailing south again.
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