Not an especially noteworthy day otherwise.
Sunrise made a strong showing, although Claudia was the only audience member (she does the last shift of the night).
By 1pm, we had covered 143nm since the same time the day before, bringing our total distance covered for the passage to 2750nm.
Spare time was used to start preparing for "post-passage"... Watermaker ran to fill our tank while the washing machine cranked out 4 loads of laundry.
We oscillated between sailing and motoring all day, with the hope that, as forecasted, we could cover the last 150-200nm on an upwind tack (where Mairmade is much more comfortable sailing), but the wind shifts and calm periods kept us waiting. We're sailing now as I write, but with below forecasted wind speeds. We also have a strong desire to make it to St. Lucia before sunset tomorrow (for the best photo op. 😛), so the engine may have to come on again. The good news is tha
t we
are now close enough to run the engine at a higher RPM in order to make that sunset deadline if necessary.
The highlight of the day:
Another beautiful sunset tonight accompanied by a dolphin escort; as if to guide our way to St. Lucia. Below is a still from the video (which is awesome but can't be sent by Satellite!).
Land-ho tomorrow.
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