Hello to all.
The last days have been nice down wind sailng without any major incidents. We are though very sad to learn that Pelican (150 monohull) had issued a MayDay and has later abondoned their boat due to some major rigging failiure. Fortunately all crew were rescued by a comercial vessel and they are now heading towards Gibraltar. It is already the second abandoned boat from this years ARC rally, and we have also heard one non-ARC mayday and an other abandoned fishing boat so things can
happen, but it is still much safer than crossing the road in front of Stockmann in Helsinki!
We have been in contact daily with two Norwegian yachts, Ronja and Blue Voyager, that have taken the same route and are doing the same speeds as us so we have a little Scandinavian transatlantic escader. The winds have been SE to ESE between 15 - 25 knots moast of the time until this afternoon when they have been a bit weaker.
Today we have been noating that the weather is getting warmer and that the sun is getting stronger. The temperature of the water is now 29,9 celsius and the air is the same. This afternoon we showered the boys on the back pontoon with a proper bucket and salt-water shampoo. Felix as
usual claimed that the water was ice-cold.... but after a while it turned into a fun thing. We have had the fishing rods out for the whole day, and we caught something really really big because it took all the line out and then it snapped like it would have been made of paper! And we use lines that should be ok up to 80kg! So unfortunately we had to have Norvegian smoked salmon for dinner, and we are still missing our fresh tuna sushi!
Now we have set our course straight towards Saint Lucia and our aim is to be there this time next week, so hopefully the winds would continue around 20 knots.
I guess that there is not much more to repport at this time, all are well, kids love it and are already speaking about crossing the Paciffic, and all the animals they are going to see at the Galapagos so who knows this might just be the beginning!
Hasta la proxima vez!
El Commandante y su humilde tripulacion!
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