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Sally - 180 nm to sail before landfall in Rodney Bay



The last 180 nm, before we make landfall in Rodney Bay on Saint Lucia, seems to be challenging. The weather forecast promise light wind tomorrow and still some swell. Will cause a lot of flapping sails and motoring.

The last night was a squally night and so was this evening. During my watch we got the longest squall so far, one hour of rain and 25 knots of wind.

It’s an intense experience sailing a rushing sailboat in total darkness and all I hear is the rain and the breaking waves around the boat. Each time I watched the radar, the squall was centered above us and it felt as it has catched Sally and will never let us go. But after one hour of madness it suddenly stopped raining and I could see the difference between sea and air. What a relief.

We are sailing wing on wing again, its faster and we hope to make landfall during daylight on saturday this way.
Johan made us an delicous apple pie and Carina had us eat porridge to dinner :|

I look forward to the dinner tomorrow that she promised will be more inspiring.

Cheers from Jonas, Carina and Johan.


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