Perilous Seas
The high pressure area which had been with us through our 16 days at sea, keeping our course calm and spirits high, deserted us as we neared the continents of Africa and Europe. one hundred miles out of Gibraltar, Neptune showed his fury. We endured 40 knot winds and seas of 12-15 ft. head on for 12 hours. The only picture taken does not begin to show the amount of water coming over the fly bridge of the boat which is 22 ft. high. It was with great relief and little sleep when we arrived at the fuel dock in Gibraltar at 3:30 am. We started refueling and cleaning the boat at 5:30 am and 3 hours later we had a clean boat and 18,000 gallons of additional fuel. After a champagne breakfast, we embarked on land to see the sights of Gibraltar (which included several monkeys).
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