The night went well, good sailing making 8 knots.

The wind dropped this morning and we make just 6-7kts. It is warm 28,6C and the sun is shining, no clouds.

It is just 14:45UTC now and we just saw far on our port tack and behind us about 6 nautical miles two boats. We were happy to see them because we feel we are doing very badly so anyone behind us counts and makes us feel better. On our stern about 10nmiles there is a cargo vessel I can reckon he is having the same course with us and going with 14,2 knots,  flies the Panama flag (all read from the A.I.S., I cant see that far!) 

I did the 12:00-14:00 watch so now I am making lentils enriched with spanish dehydrated vegetables, tomatoes laurel and garlic. I am using the pressure cooker because it is rough and rolling!!

We have not written yet about another damage we had yesterday (we didn’t want to spoil our time) on the rail of the spinnaker pole.  That means that we cannot use the spinnaker pole anymore. The bottom one meter of the Spinnaker pole rail was ripped and the rivets were gone. The pole wagon had fallen and lost all its bearings. Thanks God we didn’t miss the wagon itself!  The rail was riveted by Beneteau and we had not changed anything except that we added a Selden wagon and the Spi-pole. We know that nothing can be done right here so suggestions and advise are welcome.

We need this pole for our genoa so we will think later how to repair it.

I have to stop writing because it is difficult to press the keyboard too much rolling! And I make lots of spelling mistakes by clicking the wrong keys.

Have a nice day

Nautical miles done the last 24hrs: 158 on a straight line

Nautical miles done the last 48hrs: 321 on a straght line

All the best

S/Y ARMENISTIS

We give you below the Lentils recipe.

In 18 minutes (6 minutes normal cooking without the cover of the Pressure cooker and 12 minutes under pressure). Next time I will do 10minutes under pressure. We ate the lentils with chorizo iberico (lots of paprika on the stuff) and yellow goat cheese. Very tasty!

We just saw 5 yachts one of them a ketch huge not in the ARC, the rest ARC, two going 260 degrees the three other 225degrees like us. We just heard the Portuguese M.R.C.C., passing information that a vessel is in distress about 70 nautical miles north of us but no name nor if it is an ARC participant.