"We left Galapagos yesterday at 14:35 in a wonderful
20 knot southeasterly - had a glorious sail through
sparkling seas until evening, when the wind dropped.
We've motored a bit today, and the forecast for wind
isn't very promising.
We had a tiresome couple of hours trying to set up the
twistle pole - in the end we gave up and I suggested to
David we should go out for dinner. At that point the VHF
went, and Angela on Spring Gold, who was a couple of
miles away (the only boat for 200 miles) came on to say
she had cooked a chicken that was far too big and did
we want some? Did we just - beat tinned frankfurters.
So she wrapped the food in tin foil, and sent it over in
a bucket on a rope. Scrumptious.
Sadly the forecast isn't good for wind - a boat 200 miles
ahead of us is considering returning to Galapagos to
await the turn in the wind - a bit foolish I would guess."