3:47.18S
113:30.05W
Sunday
24th June – Erratum
Keen
eyed readers will, no doubt, have spotted that yesterday’s entry should have
read “Saturday, 23rd June”.
Instead of being sacked, the proof reader is likely to be given extra
duties as penance.
The
wind has stayed at somewhere between 13 and 16 knots from the ESE. Today, we are averaging well over 7
knots which is great after having an afternoon of just 4 or 5 knots the day
before yesterday. The run from
midday yesterday to midday today was 176.8NM which is much more like it and our
best day’s run on this trip so far.
Breaking the 200NM per day barrier will require an average speed of 8.33
knots and that’s probably just a bit of a stretch even for Percy unless we get
winds consistently above 15 knots.
The original plan to head west as far as possible in the reputedly
better winds north of 2ºS didn’t survive first contact with the machinations of the wind
gods who decreed that absolutely everywhere would go a bit flat for an
indeterminable period. So, we’ve
now been heading rather more southerly, direct for the Marquesas for several
days. That change of course had the
advantage of bringing the following wind a bit further forward and by the time
we’d turned it had begun to look from the weather charts as though a better
breeze might develop, albeit patchily, further south. That seems to have
happened.
Cor,
by day it ain't 'alf 'ot Mum
