The ocean is peaceful, as is the gentle ocean breeze. We're roughly 80 miles from the British Virgin Islands, making slow progress toward land.
My optimistic fuel reading proved inaccurate. We likely were burning more fuel at the start of the journey when we were so heavily loaded, and the shape of the tank further fooled me into thinking we had more than we actually did. We ran for roughly 10 hours, making 60 miles of progress along the rhumb line until about 10pm last night. I had hoped we'd just clogged a fuel filter, of which we have plenty, but no such "luck".
We've been flying all our sails ever since, making slower progress. Last night we had a good breeze allowing us 2.5 knots along the rhumb line, directly toward Tortola. The breeze dropped off this morning, and we're now flying Bill's cruising spinnaker -- a nice reminder to smile. This allows us to point SW at around 2 knots in a very light breeze, not too far off the rhumb line. Photo attached, taken by dropping behind in the dinghy.
We're all a bit tired, but spirits remain good. We're all looking forward to landfall one of these days! :)
Spinnaker