The more attentive among our readers will notice that from today’s position Discovery Magic’s crew appears to have now decided to head to Brazil!

It is not some mutiny. The reality is that for the last 24 hours we have had quite strong headwinds coming exactly from the direction we want to go. [For non sailors, a yacht can only point about 30 degrees into the apparent wind]. Thus we had to make a decision – made all the harder by the forecast suggesting the winds will stay firmly “on the nose” for the next two or three days. Turning south offered the prospect of slightly lighter winds, and so we thought that if we must have wind on the nose, we might as well have less of it!  From now on we are likely to have to zig-zag all the way to Bermuda – probably making for an 11, or even 12 day crossing after all….but we can’t complain as we have been able to hold our course up till now all the way from Vigo in Spain.