Well what a frustrating 24 hours
we have had, since our last time of writing we have only covered a
staggering 60 miles! And after sailing over 2700 miles to have these
conditions when you are only 100 miles from the finish is mentally very
challenging.
The wind died as forecast yesterday and since then we have been
struggling to get the boat moving at all and most of the miles we have
covered have been due to the favourable current. When the wind is as light
as it is at the moment any rolling of the boat knocks the wind from the
sails and causes the sails to slap around. This is hard to handle for any
sailor because not only are you not making any progress, the boat makes lots
of noise to let you know about it!!
We are always anxiously looking at
the weather forecast however it does not seem to be doing us any favours at
the moment and the wind looks very light and shifty for the foreseeable
future!
So as far as an ETA goes we are still no closer I'm afraid, the only
thing we know is that all of our clients fly out of St Lucia on Saturday so
if it stays as bad as this then we will have to concede defeat and retire on Friday sometime and motor to be in Saturday. However if it takes that long then there may be 2 barely sane skippers on arrival!!!
There it not much
else to report at the moment but we are thinking that maybe a quick swim
should be in order whilst we are not moving!
Hope everyone is well and the
good news is that you will at least get a few more blogs out of us
yet!!
Catch you soon
Lancelot