At noon today we are at 24 42N 018 48W sailing at 5.5 knots on a broad reach under double-reefed main and single-furled yankee. The wind is ENE 13G18. The seas are 1m with a 2m swell. The air temperature is 21C, water 23C and we have scattered Cu clouds above. Our noon to noon daily run was 130nm. We have 2585nm to go.
PredictWind Offshore GPS Tracks
The wind and seas slowly abated yesterday afternoon and overnight. By mid-afternoon we had replaced the storm staysail with triple-furled yankee with the wind well down at 18G23. By midnight we had unfurled the yankee to double-furled in 15G21. These are very conservative sail sizes since we've got a long way to go. We're keeping the boat and crew comfortable.
At 1900UTC each evening we're taking part in a SSB sked. We're talking with Cerulean and Ruffian, who are both on the River Gambia at present. Also talking with Lady of Lorien who departed the Canaries 3 days before us. They're a Pacific Seacraft 40 and are currently about 350 miles WSW of us. They'll slowly march away from us.
Also at sea is FSC yacht ReVision II. They left Santa Cruz on Tenerife yesterday. They are a Tayana 37 and are currently about 165nm NNE of us. They may slowly catch us.
We're following Lady of Lorien, ReVision II and other yachts using PredictWind's GPS Tracking. Just as you can see our track online (link at top-right of the blog page), we can see the tracks of nominated boats who also have PredictWind tracking pages. We download the tracks along with our weather data.
We expect the wind to continue slowly decreasing over the next few days. In the mean time we should have some very nice sailing under clear skies and a waxing moon.
Trust all's well where you are.
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