We picked up a new crew member today. She flew down and would not leave. We spent many hours shooing her away and then she perched on our iridium satellite antenna and she knew she had us. Right now that is our most valuable piece of equipment and if she picks at the wires we…
We found 5-6 knots of wind on the beam which was enough for our North Code 65 to give us 4-5 knots of boat speed! She is a thing of beauty as you can see from the photo below of us sailing today. Beautiful light air sailing in picture perfect conditions. Dan has been moping…
The wind died last night, with strengths below forecast and for the first time since we left las Palmas we are motoring hoping to catch some new wind from the south and then later some new from the north, hopefully dodging some headwinds. It’s going to be tricky to find wind to get to St…
A squall was just going past and through the rain we spotted a red tanker about 6 nautical miles behind heading towards us. We ran to check AIS surprised we had missed it but it wasn’t there. We checked our transmitter was receiving and sending data and concluded that the tanker must not be on…
To avoid a whole bunch of squalls we are sailing a little higher than normal which means taking the wind waves and the 3 different swells a bit more on the quarter than the stern making it very bumpy and not conducive to do anything apart from sitting on our arses 🙂 Now busy working…
We have passed the halfway point, only 1200 miles to go but the winds are looking light so might take 10 or so days to get to St Lucia. Had some glorious sailing last night and today surfing down big swells at double digit speeds maxing out at 19 knots! That helped us do our…
We managed to avoid one squall but then an hour later another appeared on radar very quickly. We have radar guard zone setup if a squall gets within 10nm, somehow this one sneaked in and the alarm went went off when it was only 5 miles behind us and closing fast. We furled in the…
Rolly conditions today with the swell front but we are expecting an even bigger one tomorrow 🙁 No respite from the swelly times. Navasana caught 3 flying fish, but we didn’t put our lines out in these conditions. Played many rounds of Uno. Dan keeps exploding cats, you have to ask home about that. Good…
Wonderful conditions today, lots of sun, winds around 20 knots and less swell. We had one reef in the main and a poled out jib (with no pole!) doing just over 7 knots. We celebrated being at sea for one week already, the days are going by so quickly! We spent some time optimizing our…
We had uncomfortable rolly seas today making it difficult to do anything, which is what we did and lots of it 🙂 Unfortunately we lost both lures on our fishing lines. Down to our last two, hope we catch more fish before we lose them too. Less than 2000nm to go St Lucia, can taste…