Hi everyone,
At noon today we were at 19 29N 023 42W steering 220M, sailing under 2 reefs and 1 furl at 5.5 knots. The wind was 16G20 from a little E of NE. Our noon to noon run over the ground was 119nm. 170nm to Mindelo.
We spent about 12 hours from noon yesterday sailing W during a period with NNE winds. This positioned us nicely to a single gybe S towards Mindelo with predicted ENE winds.
Winds became light last night and for a brief period we had to use the autopilot. Happily that didn't last long. The night was quite cloudy with a couple of light drizzly showers. By 0300 the clouds were clearing to reveal another wonderful starscape.
This morning we had several minor squalls come through. Happily we passed between them but we copped increased wind up to 30 knots nevertheless. The storm staysail was used a couple of times briefly.
Eventually the squalls cleared away to leeward and normal 'service' was resumed. Sunny sky with a few puffy small cumulus.
Trust all's well where you are.
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