Sunday 9 November 2008

Atlantic Passage: Mindelo to Grenada - Day 3

All still progressing well with a better run yesterday due to the use of the
spifurl. The winds are still aggravatingly variable, having dropped the
spifurl for gusting winds last night only to have it drop off to nothing
moments later. It appeared we had at last got the tradewinds this morning
with lanes of clouds and increased swell plus a steady 12-17knot breeze,
however this afternoon it is dropping off again. However, we are both doing
well and even listened to some of the Rememberance day service on BBC World
Service this morning. Finally we passed into our next time zone in the last
24 hours, the ships clock going back one hour which feels like good progress
but a long way to run yet and we take each day at a time.
Also apologies for the slight delay in sending blog updates, technical issue
now resolved

Distance covered noon to noon: 135nM
Position @ noon: Lat 16 24.555N, Long 31 12.212W
Total distance = 370nM
Distance to run = 1730nM

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