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DreamCatcher - 2nd December



We have only used the engine for propulsion on two occasions, totalling 1 hour and 38 minutes on this 14 day, 2100nm leg, from Mindelo....until today.
We struggled to fill the sails through last night and into this morning. Then the forecast suggested weakening winds....and the forecasts have nearly always delivered less wind than predicted.....so with only five knots of wind at around 3pm, the engine, which was running to charge the batteries, was put into gear. Where it still is, and probably will be for most of the night, until we approach the strait between Martinique and St Lucia. We are currently some 70 nm from the waypoint, then another 13 or so into Rodney Bay, St Lucia.
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