Kelpie - Tuesday 27 November 2018

> 16:46.7N 30:12.6W
>
> Settling down into trade wind sailing now. The wind blows with glorious
> predictability from slightly north of west and we have found Kelpie's
> sweet spot vis a vis sail plan so we roll along at 6 to 7 knots running up
> our westing as the old clipper captains would say
>
> The sea is rougher than expected but perfectly tolerable; mealtimes are
> interesting as we try to balance and juggle a highly mobile feast!
>
> No more fish since Chris' monster of the deep - we are probably going too
> fast.
>
> The leaderboard (which we receive as a text-only email) shows a lot of
> people have gone south. Our strategy is to sail the Great Circle which is
> the shortest distance so we are somewhat north of the straight line you
> would draw on an atlas. I have divided the journey into seven legs of 300
> miles each. We just completed the first seventh in about 50 hours which
> puts us on track for a 15 day passage.
>
> D