Welcome to another day in paradise! Another great sun rise after a night of full moon sailing. The day started very well with Simon’s delicious scrambled eggs and the last of the bacon, all washed down with good strong fresh ground coffee.
This I consider essential, although James thinks Simon and I are nuts and should be perfectly content with Gold Blend. I sometimes wonder what planet he is from!
We then all sat down with the latest weather forecasts and routing advice and had a lengthy debate about our course. All through the last three days we have been convincing ourselves that we have been sailing close to the rhumb line of 272 degrees but
when you look at the plot of our position on the paper chart it is clear that we have been steadily drifting north, in fact heading for Barbados. Nice as Barbados no doubt is we have decided to gybe to head slightly south. To do this now whilst the wind
is blowing pretty much due East seems to make sense as we expect the wind to have a little north in it by the end of the week….also it looks as if we will have a bit more wind further south. So here goes!
A little later:
Well that was a rather lengthy manoeuvre! We are all sweating buckets (apologies for the mental image!) as there was really a lot involved in getting the main with it’s preventers, two jibs, poles and associated ropes all sorted out. Literally everything
needs to be re-routed somewhere if you are to eliminate chaiff, and this is a serious consideration when you will likely be on the same point of sail for several days and nights. The whole manoeuvre has taken about an hour. Anyway we are now on our new course
and waiting for the wind to strengthen to again speed us on our way. Distance to go to the way point at the bottom of Grenada is now 550 miles!!