Only 29 miles to go!!
It’s all getting very exciting, we still can’t
see Martinique yet as it is cloudy and squally today but in the next couple of
miles we should start seeing the outline. Since we have hit 60 miles we have
been imagining the rest of the race as a round the island race, at the moment we
think we are at St. Catharine’s point quickly heading for Bembridge
Ledge! It would be nice if all round the Island races were this sunny all the
way round! We are still going along with just a main up as we are going dead
downwind with up to 25knts and making a steady 12knts towards St. Lucia. When
we get to our waypoint which is at the northern tip we will reach down into Rodney
bay and head for the finish line.
We apologise for not writing a blog yesterday but conditions
were difficult and we were all exhausted at the end of the day so there was no
time for blogging. We all had to dig deep but we got there in the end.
This will be our last blog as in a few hours we will get
mobile phone coverage and I’m sure there will be lots of phone calls
home. It’s been a fantastic adventure for everyone and the best bit about
it is we are all talking to each other and we will end up in the
Caribbean drinking rum punches together. I’m sure we will remain firm
friends long after our voyage has ended and we definitely all look forward to sailing
together again. Before we sign off, a special thanks to Mark (Derek’s
Son) for weather routing us. It’s been a great comfort knowing someone
else is keeping an eye on the weather for us. And what’s best is we have
had no upwind sailing!!
Until next year, from all of us on the mighty Incisor!