Well, today has been a very calm one. We had a lovely moon-lite night last night and it went by quickly. We mentioned this AM that we are surprised it is already the start of the 3rd day. We had a nice steady wind all through the night and didn't have to adjust the sails which was nice. We had the wind monitor working so not using any energy for the autopilot which was nice. About 2PM today the wind died down and we finally had to break down and turn the engine on. We are trying to get ourselves positioned to pick up some wind northeast of us so need to keep moving. The sea has been very flat - it is almost hard to believe how calm it is out here. Quite a change from our start out of St. Martin.
So, what do you do to keep yourself busy? With it being so calm we were able to clean the salt crystals off the stainless, clean the windows of our dodger from the salt spray, clean dead flying fish off the deck, keep track of our position, wind, speed and other details for our log book, download our weather files and that was all by 9:30 AM!! We have had a chance to read, Bob made some adjustments to the chartplotter that he wanted to do and of course the normal tasks of cooking, sleeping and taking showers. It was so calm tonight we even set the table up and ate our meal rather than balance it on our lap. We have enjoyed the break, but hope we get some wind soon so we can turn off the engine and start sailing again.
Day 2 total miles was 131 nautical miles - don't think we will get close to that for our day 3 today (our "day" goes from 6:15AM to 6:15AM). Will give you an update tomorrow.
Our current position is 23.03.83N, 61.35.98 W, heading 87 degrees magnetic, speed is currently 5 knots with the motor.
Just saw a great sunset and looking forward to another moon lite night - just would be nice if it would be a quiet sail rather than listening to the engine - hopefully it will change soon!
Greetings from both of us!
Bob & Janice
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