Wind dropped slightly, seas less confused, sun shining equals pleasant sailing. Trucking along west south west averaging about 7 knots – steady as she goes. It’ll be time for a gybe soon, but let’s not rush things. This is where the blog becomes somewhat sketchy as I search for something interesting and original to add. Cleaning, washing up, shaving, showering, reading, snoozing, sunbathing, yacht spotting, route mapping are all non-qualifying entries at this point! As is waffling; so I’ll sign off for a bit. Only point of interest is that we have just passed 2000 nm, with about 1000 nm to go!
24 hour progress – 161 nm – cumulative 2023 nm
It was gybe time again. Ordered and steady, like we almost know what we’re doing. Got full sails up on mainsail and jib. Importantly we are now heading direct to St Lucia at a very respectable 8 knots. With the spray hood down and sun shining, it really feels that this is proper trade wind sailing across the Atlantic. Time for Callum to give the fishing another go. There was definite evidence of a bite so more encouragement there. Alan decided to try Antoine in ‘performance mode’. After declaring an immediate success, Antoine said “no” and the boat stalled and headed in a random direction. Reset to ‘standard mode’.
Alan was on cooking mode making Spanish omelette – yet another off-piste selection not on the original menu, but despite this the food is lasting well. We’re not going hungry anyway.
Alan was on first watch hoping to gain significant distance and places on the ARC – oh, but we are not racing, of course!
Clive the cabin boy standing by…