Day 2 Tangier-Canaries

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Monday 3rd Nov '25


There has been very little wind so we have motored all day with the occasional sail put out and taken back in pretty quickly.

The unusual things that have happened  in the last 24hrs night - 

*  Last night during my 18:00-21:00 watch there was a chunk of something re-entering the atmosphere which lite the sky up!
*  Early this morning on my 03:00-06:00 watch there was another piece of something doing exactly the same thing but must have been smaller as it was not so bright but both of them were slow enough to be able to follow their passage across the sky.  Pretty cool!
*  About an hour ago at 16:00 Kel noticed a noise, looked up and there was a humpback whale about 50m away from the boat going in the same direction but slower!  WOW!  Didn’t expect that out here.  After a couple of minutes he/she arched it's back, the tail came out the water and it disappeared into the depths.   WOW - again!
*  Then 10mins ago I was checking the radar, all I could see was a sail boat called Viking which left Tangier just before us and we have been following since plus a few ships passing.  Kel was sunning himself in the forward cockpit and heard a strange engine noise, looked up and would you believe an open boat called a “Panga” boat (like the one in the photo) came screaming towards our bow and passed by us about 50m away!  An open boat with 1 person and 30nm from shore.  Very strange.

A day full of surprises!



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