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Misto - January 16-22 2019: Towards St Helena



With a little over 400 nm to go I'm starting to feel that our goal is in sight. We are motor sailing at this point to try and arrive on Thursday afternoon in time to check in and attend the WARC function on Thursday night. Our progress has been frustrated by adverse current and rather fickle winds, variable in both speed and direction from moment to moment, and I'm sure that the current has cost us at least 12 hours. We seem to have made endless sail changes to try and make the best of the winds but unfortunately what wind there has been for the last couple of days has been from almost dead astern. We have not flown the parasailor on this leg as we felt that we were making better speed with our new (larger) mainsail and the gennaker. This has been a good sail combination but we have had a couple of accidental (and prevented) gybes as we have surfed off some of the larger waves during the periods of stronger winds. Well, one thing I know for certain, is that nothing is perfect in the world of sailing!
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At 1/21/2019 11:53 PM (utc) our position was 20°22.18'S 000°00.61'W
Our course and speed are 310T at 8.0kts
Wind is 14.2 kts at 136T.


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