Today brought squalls. We motorsailed most of the night in uber light winds, then this morning a squall line brought enough wind to sail on most of the daylight hours. Ostensibly, slow, but nonetheless sailing. Radio net revealed the Ascension bound boats, and those closest to St Helena were the only ones with decent wind. The squall clouds kept our part of the sky interesting, and helped cool things off. We could see rain all over the surrounding sky, but it stayed dry over us. Twice we changed our sail plan as the winds shifted from south east to just barely north of east and back to east south east again. We haven’t seen any wildlife for three days..no birds, no dolphins, no fish...except flying fish..they are just nuisances that stink up the deck. We have seen four boats in the past 24 hours...one fishing boat...wish the AIS told where they are from. They are a long, long way from everywhere. One cargo ship with NO AIS...very disturbing! One cargo ship with AIS and one tanker who’s destination actually said “Far East”. It’s good to know our AIS receiver works. Just at dusk, the wind went utterly to sleep on us, so we cranked up the engine again. So thankful for that 100 Hp yanmar beast down in the hold of the Sweet Dream!
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