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Exocet Strike - Exocet Strike 2-3 March 2017



We had a great stay in Brasil, we seem to be one of the few that enjoyed it. Salvador was interesting, the berthing a bit of a challenge.
We then sailed up to a city called Joao Pessoa, capital of the NE state. The port of Cabedelo was at the entrance of the river and we stayed at a pleasant Marina at Jacare. Really helpful, bit of a current meaning you could only go into and out of the Marina at slack water, but a great and relaxed place.

We left yesterday morning, 2nd, bound for Grenada, unfortunately we got the main halyard wrapped into the steaming light fitting and from a safety point of view I took the boat back into the estuary to free it, lost two hours, but all sorted now.

Had a great sail in some squalls in the afternoon but in the night it all went pear shaped, lots of big squalls, inverting the wind, for three hours or so we made no progress, and then started a slow recovery.
As I write this we are making 6 - 7 knots of speed over the ground, nearly to our waypoint. The wind is forecast to slowly bend around more to the East then East North East, we look forward to that and continued sun, I expect that latter is a forlorn hope since we are approaching the Doldrums, or ITCZ, which is where the trade winds of the South and North Atlantic meets and dumps lots of rain and the wind does strange things. It will be three or four days until we are clear of this and into good winds and weather.
More tomorrow,
John

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