Coordinates: 27 49S 163 04 W
Bearing: 40M
Boat Speed: 5.8
Wind Direction: 155
Wind Strength: 12
Sea state: some moderate southern swell
Crew state : grateful
Fish caught: nil
Other points of interest:
we had been talking this morning about the exact position of the Haymet rocks first seen in 1863 and only once possibly since. We should be some long distance away.
I was in my bunk below about half an hour ago thinking about getting up. Ted was on watch when there was an almighty noise like a giant bang and the whole boat seemed to lift. I immediately scrambled up on deck thinking HAYMET to see Ted with a look of awe on his face pointing to a large slick on the surface of the water behind the boat. At the bang and lurch of the boat which was doing about 6 knots at the time he had seen to his right a great whale tail in the air near the starboard stern of the boat.
We checked down below immediately but there appears to be no serious damage just a glancing blow as we rode up over the whale . There are nicely curved and extremely thick timbers along the keel of each hull so we should be fine. But to lift 6 ton of boat sailing along it would have been one hell of a wack.
On the bright side we have seen no sign of Haymet Rocks - good job it was not them!!!
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