Hi everyone,
At noon today we were at 04 57S 096 51W steering 250M, sailing under double-reefed main and full yankee at 6 knots. The wind was 12G16 from the SE. Our noon to noon distances were 135nm by the log and 152nm over the ground. Overall we've logged 1509nm and 1567nm respectively. Our distance to go is 2506nm.
At noon today we were at 04 57S 096 51W steering 250M, sailing under double-reefed main and full yankee at 6 knots. The wind was 12G16 from the SE. Our noon to noon distances were 135nm by the log and 152nm over the ground. Overall we've logged 1509nm and 1567nm respectively. Our distance to go is 2506nm.
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| Company |
The photo above shows a very sneaky hunting strategy. These birds don't want to land aboard, they hover over our goalpost looking for passing fish. Bird brain huh?
Yesterday afternoon was partly cloudy. We bore away onto a run to refill our water tanks with 30 litres from jerries. Later rain showers built up but didn't come overhead. At 1800 we changed from 3 to 6 hour watches, initially as a trial. We've done this before on our longer passages and it usually works in settled weather conditions.
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| Champagne Sailing (almost) |
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| Chasing the sunset |
Overnight it remained cloudy but the wind held in nicely. It would be champagne sailing conditions if it weren't for the 2m swell with seas on top. At about 0300 the Moon then Venus rose behind us. Both very bright.
This morning I did a few odd jobs around the boat - checked the engine, vacuumed the cabin sole, cleaned the booby poo off the solar panels. Meanwhile Nic baked pizza.
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| Pizza |
Our EBBYC group continues to progress. The screenshot below is from late this morning. From left to right are Let's Go, Sea Change, Ohana, Zen Again & Onyx/Xora. The latter two are buddy boating so indistinguishable.
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| PredictWind GPS Tracking |
Trust all's well where you are.
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