Day 19 Getting lifted to St Lucia

We started sailing early this morning after motoring to a position that would allow us to get to St Lucia on one tack while getting lifted as the wind veers around. Still, we are close hauled at around 40AWA getting beaten up by wind waves and swell. Winds are around 17 knots making for some fast bumpy sailing. Birdy died this morning which was very sad, we had got really fond of her. She wasn’t scared of us at all and would let us stoke and also hold and carry her around. We left water and food out for her but she obviously had different tastes. We had Jessy’s left over lentil curry again for dinner, yum yum. Back to the bash! Chet