Tuesday 10th December
Bluejay is now on her final 48 hours before arrival - we can almost smell St Lucia! These last days with a lighter wind forecast its taken extra attention and focus in order to maximise speed and pointing ability. But it has still been enough wind to keep us at 6 knots with only one night watch where it dropped down to 5. With a much flatter sea state today called for another spinnaker run to make a final push with the wind that we have and we hopefully gybed for the final time this morning! I'm hoping to not need to use the engine again after our very light winds all those days ago when we were leaving Las Palmas, the lovely comfort of being in the cruising class (with time penalties!) but our forecast does show a even further drop in the wind tomorrow lunchtime- but with the forecast showing the winds backing tonight to NE rather than the E-ESE I'm hoping we might actually be on a beam reach tonight which will be a nice change from the days being poled out! All we can do is make the best of the wind we have with us at the time!