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Too close for comfort. Joyce and Grant began the day and spotted lights at 0100. Initially it looked like a catamaran that was off our stern for the last 24hrs. This cat had left Bermuda about the same time as us. It appeared quite far off. As it came closer on a converging course things didn’t look right and it became evident that this was a large container ship. Joyce and Grant altered course 60 degrees, which allowed the ship to pass a mile behind Rose Lee, yikes this was a way too close. Jim and I did the 0300 to 0600 watch with a nice breeze. We can see a light off our starboard bow that we are catching up too. We think it may be Rhapsody a hunter 45 competing in the salty dawg rally. Joyce and Grant took over at 0600 and a short while later Joyce was waking me…. The boat ahead turned out to be "Osprey" and was being sailed by a polish skipper who had run into bad weather and lost his mast. He must have run into one of the many squalls we experienced. He was not in distress and had a hurry rigged sail plan utilizing what was l3ft of his mast, however he was out of fuel and requesting some. We had two tanks l3ft on deck so we came along side and did a line transfer of one of our tanks. He was very appreciative. We also contacted Rhapsody who was behind us and they made arrangements to drop off a couple of guys of fuel to I sorry as well. It’s nice to be able to lend a hand to a fellow sailor in need we are a close community out here. What a great community we live in. 111 km in the last 24 and about 200 left to Antigua, we are seeing lots of birds now.
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