TORPOINT MOSQUITO SAILING CLUB

Mediterranean Report

By Andrew Ford

Going to Gibraltar on board, "Exocet II" skipper John Dyer's new yacht,  returning to England.

Received Tuesday 24th June 2008 10:08am

"Hello Ralph!  It's Andrew! We're off Cape san Sebastian. Hardly any wind were doing 6 kts on the engine, I'm afraid. We left Port san Mari yesterday at about midday and we're not regretting leaving there because we left all the Mosquitoes behind.

The Sky's absolutely clear and the sun is out and the temperatures up. We're on a heading of 216º going towards Gibraltar and we hope to be there on Friday. We never made it to Majorca we're doing a direct route, obviously to save time because the boats on a long journey back to the UK.

Francesca and I are watch keeping, been watch keeping the last two nights and we're on watch now but it's a bit more relaxed 'cos the suns out and every bodies sort'f just fiddling round doing things.

Got to go,  long call!

We have not had any access to the internet by the way, that's why you've not had a log.

Cheers Andrew! bye!"

 Received Thursday 26th June 2008 09:47am

"Morning! It's Andrew Ford on Exocet II. We're just about to enter Alicante, so this will be a quick one because; it's bollards next.

We went 06:00 this morning, we were at 'zero zero, zero zero, zero zero,' so we were at zero! So to speak, and N 38.40 ......... "