Endeavour III - Blog Day 1

Day 1!

We crossed the start line at 12:01, in great winds, and lovely sunshine! Dodging the fast ferry out of St. George’s Town cut, to cheers from the passengers! Must have been a sight seeing 25 sailing yachts, all with full sail jostling for place.

Out into open water and we raise the code Zero, and started making good ground until the halyard slipped! A couple of places lost before we sorted our first (I’m sure of many) problem. With the now reefed code zero back in action we made very good ground!

Was a good day of sailing, keeping an eye on our on fellow ARC boats. Alas 2 of our crew were still to find their sea legs.

As chef of the day Dominique had shrewdly prepared a lasagna the previous day, and was absolutely delicious! A meal to aspire to.

Into the night and the wind slowly turned from a fresh southerly to weakening south westerly. By 4am we were goose winging down wind.

By 8am the wind had turned north westerly, and was very weak, so on with the engine. Not ideal when we’ve another 1800 miles to go, and want to conserve diesel.

All in all the first 24hrs has gone well, the crew are getting into the swing of things, we’ve made good ground, and positioned well! Now preparing for a more interesting next 24hrs…

Nautical miles traveled 162
Distance to end destination 1630nm
Fish caught 0
Smiling faces 5

Dave Preston - Endeavour III