Thursday 6 January 2011

It's NOT the Pond1

It's the North Atlantic Ocean, and big, very big, and we are in the middle of it.

We are 1086 miles from the Cabo Verde, with 1090 miles to go. The Trades are NE 16-25kts, giving us 6-7.5 kts with reefed main and staysail, and seas of 3 - 3.5m. We are heading due west for Grenada.

The night skies are awesome - wall-to-wall stars. The days are classic tradewind conditions, blue skies with cotton-wool clouds,blue, blue sea.

Long-nose spinner dolphins entertain us, flying fish abound. Fishing is good, Mahi-Mahi for tea tonight.

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1 comment:

  1. I'm so jealous! We didn't see any dolphins (the mammals) after the first couple of days.

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