Adverse Current

Eowyn
Fri 5 Nov 2010 05:24
 
Éowyn is on passage to Richards Bay, South Africa in position 27:05.596S 043:50.269E
 
The light winds continued until Wednesday meaning that we had quickly used over half of the available fuel. Knowing there were some further light winds ahead, we have conserved fuel by not using watermaker, breadmaker etc. Wednesday and Thursday saw good winds but still a substantial current against us. We did not lose this until Thursday afternoon, so lost a lot of distance to many other yachts in the fleet.
 
The weather on this leg has been complicated but as usual the fleet shared any information between them.