No wind!
We have succumbed to putting the donkey on! After the wind dropped to barely a zephyr last night we decided at 2am to motor. At about 7am the wind had picked up slightly, albeit virtually on the nose, so we unfurled the gib and managed to sail for about another 6 hours. At 12.50 we were making only 3 knots towards St Lucia and so we’re now motoring again. Our frustration has been shared by a fellow ARC-er who made a general announcement on the VHF ARC channel – ‘who ordered this damn wind? I don’t like it!’
This has given the opportunity for a mid atlantic swim, and I’m ashamed to say only the skipper took this opportunity! We did catch it on film, but the battery died half way through! No great whites were spotted during or after the swim, just a shoal of trigger fish – enough to give Nick a bit of a fright!
As we’re nearing our destination (relatively speaking) we’ve become a bit less cautious with on-board supplies (2 cakes a day instead of 1!) and decided we could spare enough water to give our Sibilation crew t shirts a rinse through. We feared they may send us straight back again as soon as they caught a whiff of us if not!
Sibilation crew