Ascension Island

Well it was a splash and dash in Acension, we arrived Monday 1300 BST and I would have loved to stay there longer, its so beautiful there, the people were
so nice and the beaches looked stunning, but we had no time. It was a little tricky as we had to ferry everything by water taxi, but we did it. We wanted
to eat ashore on Monday night but I run out of pounds and the bank shut at 1500, so we ended up having a traditional SA braai onboard.

On Tuesday morning we made our last run ashore to fill the last few water containers. At 1000 we tried to raise our anchor but i think it had snagged on
the bottom, so Dusty had to go for an early morning swim (we knew we might have a problem as dusty always checks the anchor when we drop it) but the
problem was made more difficult as the island was being replenished by diesel. This was done by a huge tanker at anchor about half a mile offshore and a
long line from the boat to shore, its seems quite a task. Anyway the floating line was getting closer and closer and ended up right over our anchor, so we
had to get the tanker to put on it stern thruster to move the pipe away from us to enable us to get our anchor free, all in a days work!!

So far we have caught 2 fish but let them go as they were too small, but just as we came in to Ascension we had a huge sailfish on the line but it snapped
the line and we are using 100kg line. I suffered slight rope burn just, i think it would have been to big to bring aboard in any case.

We are now heading 350 degrees straight towards cape verde, mindelo, we have 350 miles to the equator (at wed 0900) so should cross friday lunchtime.

Everyone is in great health and enjoying life at sea. We are having some amazing meals, well apart from the banana bread which went a little wrong!!! ha
ha.

From everyone onboard

Vol de Nuit out........