Winds have improved for us today and we ran with polled out Genoa and Jib polled out on the boom for much of the day, this configurations works well for Layla between a narrow range of wind speeds and we had a chilled out day with most people taking the chance to catch up on some zzzz’s.
Today a cruise liner overtook us but apart from that we have not seen much around us these last days.
In the water we have been seeing sea weed for about a day signalling that we are getting close to land. We had a visit from 4 dolphins who played around under the stern for about an hour – what amazing creatures they are. The rods were chirping quite a few times today but each time the fish was lost and for H the line ran out so fast that he was in danger of running out on the reel.
So we have 360 nM left as I write this. Our support team has now arrived in St Lucia and all of us are starting to dream of seeing them and of that first cold beer and then the second one and… and… and…
Dinner is on and we are rationing our the last of the zero alc beers – there is a bit of cloud about but we should get some moonlight tonight which makes the night watches a bit more fun…
Two days left…. :-) Layla Out.