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Sailing Pause: Bermuda to Europe Day 13

Posted 1 month, 27 days ago

Sailing Pause: Bermuda to Europe Day 13
We turned in 133nm on yesterdays run. We had a chop and change kind of day yesterday waiting for the wind to pick up and shift around to the NW. Since then the wind has certainly picked up: We are getting gusts in the low 20s and steady high teens at the moment. The wind is still out of the west, so optimizing our course has been a little harder, we are making a fair amount of North at the moment with the intention of gybing later this evening or tomorrow when the wind finally comes around. The higher wind has picked up the sea, with 6 to 8 foot swells coming up from behind us and breaking under the boat. We aren't surfing at the moment, but another 2 to 3 feet higher seas and I imagine we would start to. The overcast sky has put a steel grey hue on the sea and with the white caps on the wavetops, it looks like "serious" business - its a good job we are heading deep downwind otherwise it would be a wind tunnel experiment at the helm. The weather has got much cooler as well, and its definitely chill, even in the sun. Nightime watches are definitely a two fleeces and jacket affair and I have been eyeing up my hat - last used snowboarding in February earlier this year. Yikes. We are well into the Azores having left Flores, which is well north, behind us. We will pass to the south of Pico and Faial and then, sometime late tomorrow afternoon or evening, to the north of Sao Miguel (not to be confused with San Miguel). That will then leave us with a clean shot into the mainland and the Straits of Gibraltar. Full Story »

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