The plod goes on. Our position today 1200UTC: 31d20N 47d42W Thursday and Friday night provided some very rough passage making against some big trade-winds seas and very variable winds and squalls. By today, Saturday, morning we are bashing along upwind on stbd tack doing our best to get at least some easting and northing against this steady Easterly nor-easterly (ie from where we want to go!). As long as we can manage to keep some easterly slant in our course we'll keep on this one. Whenever it changes and heads us we'll tack and try to head further east, or even better east North east. We will also need some 'catch-up' time shortly to attend to minor defects and adjustments and to water and fuel ship from containers. With a heavily slanting and very wet deck its not safe or easy to transfer such stuff. Perhaps we may heave-to later today.
Weather info from UK has been terrific. Obviously quite a bit of effort involved. I share it with our 'chummy boat', just in sight about 10 miles abreast of us, Dania, a steel Danish sloop with 3 youngish persons aboard.
We've done about 1350 miles from St Barths, and about 1100 to go to Azores, so we allowed ourselves a halfway beer with Skipper's Friday night Chili.
We've finally ditched the last of Doris the Dorado and now trying for more sealife. Dave has promised to do a seafood Risotto with whatever we catch (Japanese knotweed and polystyrene risotto anyone?)
M & D on R
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