During the night the pretty good wind continued. In the morning we set the gennaker for a very short time until the he wind reached the threshold speed. We changed it sails to main with reef 1 and the genoa fully out.<\/p>\n
AWA of 120deg makes a COG of around 265 – 275deg while we have a BTW (bearing to waypoint at Sint Maarten) of 272deg.<\/p>\n
Averaged over a few hours we are running 5.5 on STW with and SOG just bit higher because a current of 0.8 kn helps a bit.<\/p>\n
The autopilot in wind vane mode keeps MaRe well on course. In about 20 h we are closer than 1000 NM to our destination, Sint Maarten.<\/p>\n
As usual, just when we sat down for breakfast, a fish bit the bait. Unfortunately it got off of the hook. So G needs to get another one or change his plans for today’s meal.<\/p>\n
A few minutes back, B called us because a bird – more than 1100 NM from the nearest coast – attacked the pink colored lure being pulled 100+ m behind MaRe. We are wondering what kind of bird it is. It’s neither a normal seagull not comoran, birds able to fly in high seas. Impolite as birds are, it neither introduced itself, nor did it handover it’s business card.<\/p>\n
For the rest, the relaxed atmosphere on board continues. A bit overlayed by the feeling that we finally got the trade wind back and we are sailing fast and direct towards our destination.<\/p>\n
One crew member is particularly happy because there will be a charming lady awaiting him in Sint Maarten.<\/p>\n
MaRe is happy as well because she sails through a marvelous, blue sea with the white horses of a 5 Bft wind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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