It’s six o’clock Monday evening off Brighten in the English Channel, and in about two hours the Sea Stallion will cross the Zero Meridian and move from West to East.
It will be in the last of the evening sun, for since we left Portsmouth at one o’clock the sea Stallion has run before the steady westerly wind like a sunlit arrow with speeds between 7–9 knots, with a favourable current and a very moderate sea. The goal is Ramsgate, still 24 hours sailing in front assuming the wind keeps up.
For once, our evening meal – chicken curry – can be eaten without great acrobatic skill as we sail. The ship is steady despite the speed through the water.
We have six guests on board. They chose the right day. Among them, two English journalists who are having a great time reporting on the voyage with the big reconstruction.
– The last time we had such nice summer sailing was in Norway two years ago. It rained practically the whole way from Roskilde to Dublin last year. Sailing like this is just what we have all been longing for, said a glad skipper Carsten Hvid shortly before we slid over the Zero Meridian.
