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Monday, July 12, 2010

Awesome Day!

Its day 3 and we woke to a wonderful sunrise, yep you guess it, the shorts came out today!! goodbye jeans! We also got the fishing line out, but took an
hour to sort the tangled line out. The fish got lucky today but fingers crossed for tomorrow!! As the wind and swell have been better today we caught up on
some jobs onboard, life onboard is cool and I seem to be less stressed this time round! Much to Dustin delight!

If we were on land we would be over the Namibian boarder today, we are still heading in a North Westerly direction and those of you who are interested our
current position is @ 21:00 on Monday 12/7/2010:-

30 degress 00 42S
012 degress 58 55E

We are 358 miles from Cape Town.

Oh I nearly forgot Dustin gave me a dog on day 2, we have named her Ci Ci! she has a lead and everything! So now apparently I have to take her for walks
and feed her!! Things you do whilst at sea!

Well thats us for now Vol de Nuit out......

Sunday, July 11, 2010

Leaving Cape Town

'Vol de Nuit' left Cape Town at 1500 on Saturday 10th July, thanks for all
of you who came down to see us off, most kind! Well its now Sunday and as
of 1200 we had already 141nm from Cape Town heading in a NW direction out
towards the Benguela current.

Our current position as of 12:45 is
32 degress 02'83S
016 degress 21'41E

Water temp is 16.6 and max speed so far is 10.6 knots, sea state is still
a little choppy but should recide during this afternoon.

Everyone is safe and in good spirits.

Will write again soon, Vol de Nuit out......

Sunday, July 4, 2010

Final Preparation

Been on board for a week now...but we are still alongside. We finally got our stick on Wednesday so we have gone from a powercat to a Sailing vessel. Got some good food for the trip! Tomorrow we will be clearing out of Customs, on Tuesday we will get all our fresh produce and final last minute things. We are looking to leave on Wednesday morning. Took our boat out on Saturday, had 15 to 20 knots Westerly with the Genoa out, engines off. Got wacked without a paddle but as soon as we leave it will go in hibernation.