Sunbeat VI - Day 18 - Nearly there…

The winds eventually filled in nicely from the NNW. Now able to point directly to Saint Lucia. With a distance remaining of around 150nm, should be able to arrive sometime Thursday evening.

Weed has been a continual problem. Having to put the engine on and go into reverse every hour of so to clear it off the rudder. At one point we strapped Drac into the bosun’s chair and suspended him from the spare spinnaker halyard over the side of the boat in order to check whether the rudder was clear. Needless to say, crew onboard felt Drac needed to be a little lower over the side in order to see under the boat while it was heeled over, which resulted in an impromptu ducking. With water temperature above 28 degrees C it wasn’t too much of a hardship for him!

We ate the last of the frozen meat tonight and have one fresh loaf of bread left for lunch on Friday, along with.a few rather tired looking apples and oranges. So provisioning has worked out well. We still have plenty of tinned food left, so if the trip had gone on for longer we wouldn’t have gone hungry.