Biguá - Log day 17 - Helping SV Garuda!

Hello fellow sailors.Yesterday we had an intense day on board.By the morning, we received an ARC email, warning us about a sailboat asking for help, Garuda. They had lost their mast and didn’t have enough fuel to get to St. Lucia.We ourselves are consuming more fuel than we had predicted we would. We lost our generator and need to charge our batteries with our engines.Still, we did the math and realized we could lent them a hundred liters of fuel.We turned around and started searching the boat using only the last position ARC had given us. Tough task out here at sea.We couldn’t contact them through the VHF radio and their AIS was inoperative.After many hours, we could finally get closer to Garuda and contact them through the radio. We then started updating our positions constantly. But. read more...