Kelpie - Monday 26 N0vember 2018

> 16:31.4N 27:35.5W
>
> So now we are in the true trade winds and after all the complicated sail
> plans we tried over the weeks since leaving Southampton it seems a simple
> genoa, no pole, no main bowls us along at 6 knots without any nasty
> graunching noises or uncomfortable motion. So thats how we are doing this
> at the moment.
>
> After yesterday's exciting start we found a full gale blowing in the
> acceleration zone between Sao Vicente and Sao Antao so we had an
> exhilarating sail through that. At last light, on exiting the acceleration
> zone, we dropped into the wind shadow of Sao Antao where there was no wind
> at all so we motored for 4 hours to escape it. Then we found the trade
> wind and have been enjoying it since. At the same time as we lost the
> wind, Chris caught another fish - a really really ugly one - It was about
> a metre long but no thicker than my wrist, had huge eyes and a set of
> seriously vicious teeth. Chris chucked him back but not before Andrew
> took his photo which we will upload when we get to SVG.
>
> We have just had the leaderboard by email from the ARC - it seems we are
> lying second in the mono-hulls class - Good oh!
>
> D