Atlantic Passage: Mindelo to Grenada - Day 4

We are drawing very close to the quarter way mark and should pass that
today. The wind did continue to drop throughout yesterday afternoon and we
eventually had to motor for an hour in the early evening. However, the wind
then picked up, although it was of a fairly variable direction requiring
constant attention to stay with the jib goosewinged. The wind is now running
at between 14-18 knots and the direction of both wind and swell appear to
have settled which is what we were anticipating from the forecast. We had
been keeping a little north of the usual route to begin with to try and keep
as much wind as possible, however the forecast and wind is now determining
that we can start to track more southerly.

Distance covered noon to noon: 126nM
Position @ noon: Lat 15 45.029, Long 33 17.027W
Total distance = 498nM
Distance to run = 1602nM