Sunday, December 9, 2018

Atlantic Oceanic buoys

We are in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. Brazil and Africa are equally far. The last 24 hours we have passed five buoys. Approximately twenty miles apart. There size either 10x1m or 4x4m or 2x6m. One had a row of strong lights which illuminated even the clouds above. The others had none. Their AIS signal only two miles distance. How interesting that in the middle of no-where we happen to cross paths with it.
So far, all good with us. We had light southeasterlies all the way. Sometimes not enough to turn the windgenerator but we made our average of 100 NM a day. It is around 30 Celcius everyday with lovely promising clouds. We have not had proper rain yet. The clouds make for lovely sunsets. A big dorado got away today.
Greetings.