What a disaster
today is! Deep fog outside the balcony so we can’t even see the twenty (?)
metres to the sea just below beside the ship. Just thick white blanket outside
and the deep foghorn of the ship sounding mournfully every few minutes. That
foghorn is a dismal and depressing sound that reverberates through you.
The Captain came
over the TV into the cabin while I was still in bed to tell us the sad story.
Winds outside were too strong so the ship couldn’t safely berth at Torshaven,
and attempts to make it a ‘Tender Port’ were abandoned when the winds prevented
positioning the ship for anchor.
He said the
safety of passengers and ship were his priority, so he sadly abandoned our
visit to the Faroe Islands. Things have not improved, with the white blanket
all around us. Air temperatures outside are up to a cold 12°C. We can’t see it
but the sun was to rise at 4.17am and will set at 10.47pm. The night is fairly
light before and after these times. Though I have not stayed awake to see if
and when it gets quite dark.
At mid-day the
Captain came through again with updates on the weather and the ship’s course.
The winds are still strong – up to 35 knots per hour, and likely to get worse
in this North Atlantic Ocean.
He has planned a
course to avoid the worst of the weather. It’s not the shortest route, nor one
that would take us through the fishing banks off North America as weather there
is regularly rough and foggy. There are two ‘Lows’ coming in from the West so
he is planning a course between them as the least rough and uncomfortable on
the way to New York by July 25th.
We have passed
below Iceland which straddles the Arctic Circle and will be travelling at
approximately the latitude of Bergin, Norway, for the moment. We are South of
the Shetland Islands of Britain, and heading roughly West to South West..
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