Monday 9 March 2009

Last sight of shore for a while.....










When we woke up this morning we had a nice +20 C outside and at noon it reached +25 C. Not bad considering the +3 C we had when we left Ushuaia 4 days ago!! Unfortunately we had no time to enjoy it as we were all busy fixing, washing, cleaning, counting etc etc....

In the afternoon we entered the mouth of Rio de la Plata and started sailing up river towards Montevideo in Uruguay. (Some of the crew tried to convince Captain Rune to go slightly left towards Argentina and Buenos Aires instead but did not succeed.)

We arrived Zona de Servicio - as planned - right before 6pm and at 7pm the bunker vessel was alongside. Shortly after 10pm - after taking 300 cbm of MGO - we were ready to sail down the river again and to start our 15 days crossing of the Atlantic. Hopefully King Neptune will give us smooth sea and nice weather!