As últimas comunicações vem de Vera Sanada e do Capitão Philip.
Mensagem de Vera Sanada, do Brasil, via email
13 de novembro de 2009
Fiquei bastante preocupada depois de ler o blog do Philip do dia 12.
Houve ataque de piratas a 200 milhas de onde eles estavam, e como ele mesmo coloca, é provável que tenha uma "nave mãe pirata" na região.
Bom é que os ventos continuam a soprar a favor deles e estão navegando bem , chegaram a fazer 137.1 milhas em 24 horas, acredito que esse tenha sido o récorde até agora. Estão saindo ao máximo da rota dos piratas e tudo indica que breve estarão fora da zona de risco.
Que bons ventos continuem soprando a esses bravos navegadores históricos!
Abaixo texto do Philip.
Beijocas com carinho e um pouco preocupada.
Vera
Mensagem do Capitão Philip
"It has been another busy and nail biting 24 hours on board Phoenicia.
The main cause for concern was the report below mentioning two very recent pirate attacks.
"On 10/Nov at 0200 UTC a container ship was attacked by pirates in 2 skiffs in position 00 43S 061 57E. The skiffs where white in colour with 7-8 persons on board. Assault rifles were fired .
The vessel deployed anti piracy measures, increased speed and was able to evade the attack.
On 09/Nov at 0830 UTC a VLCC was attacked 35 NM from the position above."
The attacks took place just over 200 miles south east of our position and would indicate a pirate mother ship in the area. What made matters worse was that the location was directly on Phoenicia's intended course. We took immediate action and diverted course as anyone will be able to see who is following our progress on the Yellow Brick tracker. Fortunately we have had strong winds and have averaged over 5 knots during the last 24 hours and managed 137.1 miles, moving as fast as we can away from the area of the attacks.
Otherwise we have been making a few running repairs to the rigging. This afternoon Dirman ventured aloft with the help of the bosun's chair to put an additional parell in place should our recent one fail from chaffing. We have also had 4 of the brailing lines break due we think to some pretty sub-standard hemp rope we have on board. We have repaired one with out having to drop the yard and the main sail remains partly furled due to the strong winds. Nevertheless we are doing around 6 knots as we head into the evening. We are praying we won't see any ships as we head to the Equator, which we should now reach tomorrow or early Saturday.
