It feels like we are closing in on our final days towards Saint Lucia. It is getting really hot during the days, making our daily bucket shower a small highlight of the day. Luckily, we also still have a good amount of ice cream that we made of ripe bananas instead of letting them go bad. We are surprised, anyhow, how good many of our vegetables are surviving in this weather. We are still enjoying plenty of fresh produce and did not even think about using any canned or durable food. Healthy sailing!
Today also marked 1st December and Lonneke could finally (!!!) open the first Christmas calendar pack. She was soooo excited and happy!
Sailing these days remains comfortable with calm winds dominating most of our days and nights. We are having 8-10kts of tail wind which our oxley transforms into ~6kts of speed. Every once in a while the wind increases towards 12-13kts which means a speed of 7.5-8kts for us. Amazing how much these small wind differences correlate with our speed!
But we are extremely thankful that our choice of a more northern path is giving us these conditions. We are rather sailing a day or two longer in these winds than having to worry about changing sails and stress on our crew and boat.
Daily run: 157nm