Day Three the Journey continues
Trip Start
May 20, 2005
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Trip End
Jun 08, 2005
Lae, Papua New Guinea
Thursday, May 26, 2005
Today we are to head across to the neighbouring main Island New Britton this crossing was due to take 8 or so hours. Little did we know that the same storm from the day before blew up again and turn an easy 8 hour crossing into a hellish 20 hour crossing with all the trimmings, headwinds swell from the wrong direction etc. At one stage the speedo on the boat was showing 8 knots, what with the wind and the current and swell the satellite speed was showing us doing a whopping 2 knots. thus a disturbingly slow crossing.
One thing you find out in a hurry is that sea sick tablets work really well, trouble is that once they wear out they stoop working and there is no going back to feeling good, so my advise is read the package and take as described, mine wore of around the 6 hour mark and by this time the boat was reeling from side to side, thinking that there was only a couple of hours to go I didn't think it would be to bad.
Asking Rod about our whereabouts on the planet he said that we had only traveled about a third of the distance that we should had.
this was indeed bad news for me, as the sea sickness was just starting to take effect, now normally I am not one to suffer from the sea sickness however in open ocean crossings I always ere on the side of caution and take the little blighters. So sad to say this was the trip that would break me. for the next twelve hours I shared my time from lying flat on the back deck tossing and turning or wedged into the galley eating area still flat on my back, lost few kilos over the side if you know what I mean.
We finally arrived at our safe Anchorage after around 20 hours of steaming and I must say that calm water never look so good to me, and of course my stomach.
