18th - 20th May - Not long to Horta

Position 1800 GMT Sunday 20th: 34d16N; 33d24W After a hectic few days on our ear sailing upwind into 22 knot easterlies in big seas, the wind has just,....sort of.....gone!. Totally windless. All we're left with is an annoying swell. We're in the middle of a huge 1035 High and now we're motoring NE along the 400 miles left to go to Horta on the Azorean island of Faial. Of one thing we are certain though...the wind will be back - with a vengeance. From Monday evening onwards there will be a jet blast of westerlies (up to 30 knots) passing south of the Azores and we will have to pass through this, probably on Tuesday and Wednesday. As for the last few days, not much to report. 1 more Dorado, now eaten. Much watchkeping and sleeping at crazy angles. Much pounding into waves and spray. Big skies, inky black seas, scudding squalls and clouds. No whales. Lots of jellyfish. Lots of reefing and unreefing. No rest for the wicked. So maybe today, motoring Sunday, can be rest day. On the other hand there's all those jobs on the skipper's list to be done