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Exody - Days 419-420: a Pepper and a Porsche...



.......presumably take their name from Cayenne 80 miles to the southwest in French Guyana. Early this morning, Tuesday 8th March, we passed the halfway mark and the conveyor belt of a current began to accelerate up to 2.5 knots. Sustaining 8.5 to 9 knots this afternoon and onwards, Exody is striding along, passing the Brazilian/French Guyana border this evening and now skirting the edge of the continental shelf. Our day's runs have been 163 and 187- tomorrow's should be over 200. The wind has settled down to a consistent northeasterly at 12-15 knots and the close reach sailing in quiet seas is comfortable - except that we can not risk opening the hatches and windows for a bit more cabin ventilation !!

The torrential rain and grey skies of the weekend have given way to much brighter conditions so we, (and the batteries) are happy! On the battery front, we have the towing generator out full time (taking the hit of 5-8 miles run per day) , the wind generator is effective on this point of sail and of course the solar panels. We have only run the engine to support the SSB on the cloudy morning when Exody was net controller.

This morning, Aretha appeared on the horizon and slowly overhauled us, still just 5 miles away to the south at sunset - good to buddy sail for a day! Starblazer is still benefiting from an enhanced inshore current of their own and Hugur has pulled ahead. Garlix, as usual, in the lead 130 miles away. Meanwhile Makena is leapfrogging her way through the fleet having started late and will make up the 50 miles to pass us during Thursday we think.

Life on board ticks over - with our thoughts now drawn to life after World ARC!

ETA Grenada now definitely Sunday 13th sometime with 700 miles to run as at midnight Tuesday.


Peter (Skipper)


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