Galapagos - Marquesas - Day 2
CuriousOyster
Steve & Trish Brown
Sat 20 Feb 2010 18:30
Time 18.00UT 20/02/2010
Passage time 2 days 4 hours
Distance to destination 2995nm
Distance travelled 489nm
Distance to run 2500nm
Course 263degrees
Speed over Ground 9.5knots
Wind speed 20knots
Wind Direction SE
Our decision to motor sail south west seems to have been vindicated thus
far. We were able to unfurl the Yankee and turn off the engine after 27
hours and have continued to maintain the 9 knot averages of the first 24
hours. We are now bowling along in 18 to 25 knot winds from the SE at speeds
of over 9.5 knots making use of the WSW going current. We are now directly
on our Rhumb line to Hiva Oa in the Marquesa Islands, our projected
landfall.
With the winds came a significant change in weather, the seas began to build
ahead of the wind and the clouds gathered around early evening bringing a
cold, wet night with sleep made difficult with the movement of the boat in
the bigger seas and fast speeds.
Still all is well aboard, the watch patterns work well and apart from some
distant radar contacts, presumably of fishing boats, we have the ocean to
ourselves.
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