One weak since the start in Las Palmas all three of us are doing fine. Trying to keep both course and spinnaker shape in weaker winds.
Three days ago we changed substantially our course south from the Great circle direct route trying to avoid being becalmed during the second week of our passage. We think t was a premature erroneous decision. We lost time, miles and ranking for one day. For our modest size boat the less miles we sail the better. If/when we enter the weakest conditions then we will change course accordingly. For the time being we are not considering any motoring. Besides with a total of 100 litres of diesel (60 l in tank and 20 l in jerrycans) one can imagine how far we could go? Besides, we need to keep our batteries using the engine without propulsion.
We have not dropped the spinnaker down for the last three days. Our greatest problem is the hand steering most of the time on dead run, since on that course our autopilot, spinnaker and swell do not come along together. The bad thing is tiredness trying to concentrate to keep precise course and spinnaker shape, the good thing is that you do not have time to get bored (what would have been the case if the autopilot was able to do its job)
Today we started to eat our ripening bananas.
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