After motoring all night last night, we had to motor all day as well and, unfortunately, we are still motoring tonight. There is not a breath of wind - I guess that's the Doldrums and one can't help but wonder what it must have been like for those sailing vessels, centuries ago, that got stuck here with no other means of propulsion.
We can't have everything though, so we settled for the beautiful sunny skies, the deep blue flat seas, the dolpins that stopped by to play in Paw Paw's bows and the yellowfin tuna Roy caught this evening and served for dinner - It's a sailors life alright!
We are hopeful though that we will pick up the SE trades within the next 24 hours based on the latest forecasts we analysed this afternoon and altered course to head SSW from our original planned course of SW. I guess time will tell!
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