Position 38:40.629N 010:40.091W

Tuesday November 8^th

01h03

Wind N Force 6-7

Sea State 2-3M

Visibility Good

Heading 225 T°

Under: 2 Reefs in Main and Genoa

Speed 5.9 Kts

I should have said goodbye to Ursula as I slipped the stern line off the pontoon in Peniche at 12h24. I did not really see her for the next few days. This was our first long passage together and alone. I now understand what Johnny Deadly said to me many years ago in the Zetland Bar when he told me he “shared a double bed alone”. We do 3 hour shifts and are groggy between so apart from the necessary debriefing we speak little and are for all the world like ships that pass in the night on a ship that passes in the night.

We were of course nervous leaving though neither of us spoke of it. Out of the harbour and pointing the sharp end towards a tiny island in the middle of a very big sea is quite daunting to us. What if we miss?

At least I can count amps and volts on this trip.

The weather is heavier than expected and the evening sunset looked threatening. However I think it will all die away tomorrow.

Wednesday

Weather very calm now we have had to motor as the wind totally died. Loose connection in starboard nav light. Sunset tonight a different affair.