Abraxas 3 - Counting down the miles

310 miles left of the crossing, and even though we are enjoying the experience we all look forward to making landfall in St Lucia.
Our ETA is currently early morning on Wednesday if the wind is willing. We are eagerly awaiting every position report to see if we made or lost ground to the boats around us. The big problem with these reports is however that we don't know how many motoring hours the other boats have on this leg so it's a bit of a guessing game to try to figure out our position on corrected time. But even though we might have more motoring hours than some, we are quite certain that most boats will report somewhere between 20 - 60 hours. So it will be interesting to see the list when we get ashore.

Outside the sun is glowing once again, and a 12 - 15 knots easterly wind is pushing us along with our poled out jib, cutter sail and mainsail at a leisurely pace of 6.5 - 7.5 knots. We had two squalls coming close tonight, but no direct hits so no problems with gusty winds or rain. A flying fish also landed in the cockpit during the night and unlike those that regularly land on the foredeck at night, this lucky one got thrown back into the sea.