Things got a bit spicy for us since I last wrote. We decided to fly the parasailor overnight to gain some miles, and some miles were definitely gained! The winds were quite strong, gusting over 20kn. By the time daytime came, we basically
just had to ride it out. Being double handed, we thought it would be too challenging to bring the sail in. So we rode out the mixed swells doing 10+kn of boat speed for a large part of the day. Often just looking at each other when we would gain over 13kn
of boat speed and shrugging our shoulders. The boat seems to be handling it beautifully, we are just concerned about chafe on the ropes of the parasailor. We regularly ease the halyard and check the various other chafe points.
Otherwise mood is good on board. We definitely get the feeling the second half of our trip will be faster than the first. We are a lot of Caribbean carrot cake to celebrate being on the Caribbean side of the ocean.
We haven't seen another boat in days. So a passing tanker was a welcome sight for a change.
The children saw a large patch of algae and thought it was an island.