Day 16, 6th July. 41-27N, 174-36E. Daily Run: 125 NM. Weather: 5 Knots S, Sunny, Calm. 2606 NM to go
Not a lot to report I’m afraid, the wind stayed solid for most of the last 24 hours, but from about 5AM it started to drop, it seems the low I was worried about has filled and moved further north than predicted. This means we are left sitting on the edge of a high pressure system, with very little wind. On the plus side it’s very calm and the sun is shining. Earlier I called Kathy to come and look at a shark that was meandering past us. All you could see was the fin doing a zigzagging, just like in the movies !
Yesterday, nothing broke and nothing was fixed. The boats pretty good now.
The last of the Japanese sliced bread went yesterday and we have started heating up vacuum packed Nan and Pitta bread. Kathy will start cooking some fresh bread, once we pass the halfway mark, as then I feel confident we won’t run out of gas. Kathy managed to make a lovely tortilla for dinner last night and I found several more bags of mini kit-kats that will keep me going until we get to America.
I have changed course to take us more north, hopefully we will pick up a bit of wind later. We managed a 125 NM run yesterday, which isn’t bad considering the light winds, we are just about making 5 knots right now, hopefully that will improve later today. For those non nautical, 5 knots (Nautical miles per hour) is just shy of 6 Mph (Miles per hour).
I have attached a sat pic of the weather, the star in the middle is roughly where we are, just under the low pressure swirl of a cloud you can see.
Paul Collister
