8:30am on day 16. We are sailing along at around 7 knots in about 18 knots of wind. Pointed dead down wind which is pretty much straight to St Lucia. I am doing my morning watch. Everyone else is in their cabin. The waves aren't small but they
aren't as big as they sometimes are. The sun has come up and it's a beautiful blue sky. Warm but not too hot yet.
This is pretty prime!
We have about 620 miles to go. The winds are forecasted to be good today and tomorrow but there is a huge dead wind hole that we are going to end up in at some point late Tuesday or on Wednesday. It looks like that might then go for days. We
are trying to get as much sailing in before that happens so that when we need to motor, we have the fuel to do so. I think we can motor about 400 miles if we absolutely have to. Nobody is going to want to bob around in the waves going nowhere within a few
hundred miles of our destination.
The only wildlife we have seen in the past two days are flying fish. Lots of those. One flew through D'arcy's window and on to his floor while he was sleeping two nights ago. He was woken by the smell. I am not sure when the last bird we saw
was. I think maybe two days. We have only had the one awesome dolphin encounter which was early on. We also saw a shark fin early on. And then obviously the two fish we actually caught. Er haven't put the hook back out since then though.