Day 35 - Passage to the Caribbean
Misterx
Tue 6 May 2025 01:52
05/05/25
22:10 pm
Day 35
North Atlantic Ocean
DTD to Trinidad: 108 NM (107NM)
As predicted, the wind just barely manage to fill our sails today. We tried
to go up wind to get a bit of a lift and it did work for a little while,
once we threw the main back up, kept the genoa and got the working jib away.
Then by the middle of the afternoon we had to give in an put the engine on.
We only had it on for the 4 hours of my watch, until 8pm, which meant that I
did not sleep a wink... the combination of noise, sails flapping, being too
warm and Ian talking to all the ships out there, being a bit to close to us,
prevented me to have a snooze... so Ian, very kindly, let me have a couple
of extra hours, now that the engine is off... worked a treat... I went out
like a light... And my watch will be considerably shorter!
We had the visit of a little pod of dolphin early afternoon, but not for
long. They were obviously going places an just couldn't resist a little
frolic in our bow wave.
Apart from that we had a very quiet day trying to make the boat go a little
faster, a little tweak here, a little tweak there, watching the wind speed,
never above 9 knots today, going to 6 knots at its worse!
Of course now we are scheduled to arrive at night, according to the gps system, so we'll probably have to slow down anyway!!!
The weeds are considerably less today, no big, huge carpet of it... the wind
vane didn't have to be cleared up as much as in the last couple of days.
As for the traffic, it has indeed intensified, must have seen 6 ships, one
of which was not on the AIS... we called him and apparently, it stopped
working... Thankfully in was in the middle of the day and we could see it
coming from miles away!
The wind is slowly building up as i am watching, 5.2 knots of boat speed,
that must be the record for the day! Not setting the world on fire!
Sponge Bob Square Pants is still doing a sterling job every 4 hours, and the
amount is less than usual again!
Watching the miles go down... we're nearly there!
M