Snow Wolf - Blog 3 (24th/25th November)
Welcome to our third blog from Snow Wolf from 22.16N and 23.11 W – we are ~600 miles across the atlantic with another 2200 miles to go. The last 24 hours has seen flat oily calm yesterday to a force 5 on the nose which started about 0400 – so yesterday was book reading and catching up on boat duties and today has been sailing in the groove and trying to make good progress to windward.
Matt has expertly routed us with the weather and looks like we are in good position – It appears the majority of the fleet have sailed south to Cap Verdi Islands to pick up the trade winds and we seem to have cut the corner – but hoping we dont get stuck in a calm patch – so all up for grabs and currently steering 215 degrees to try and intercept the trade winds and get ahead of the fleet! – all up for trying to get a piece of silver in St Lucia! -
We are currently running a 3 hour on, 3 hour off, 3 hour on and 6 hour off watch system which is working well- meals are a big social occasion and thanks to Ton yesterday who seemed to spend all afternoon in the galley but produced the prize meal of the trip so far!
We have just put our watches back an hour as we have gone through a time line – so big debate as to what this means to watches –and the log – good to move away from GMT –and seems we are making progress- towards a cool beer in St Lucia! – we are running a dry boat but so far all surviving!– bet you all thought we are all drinking G&T’s as the sun goes down!
Have not seen any boats today or dolphins – the dolphins usually put on a good daily show for us – had pilot whales the other morning trying to compete for attention but they just cant seem to balance a ball on their nose!
Matt has just informed us that he has changed his underpants today! – so things are looking up! – you dont want to hear the rest it is quite cosy with 8 blokes!
Logging off from Snow Wolf
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