26:45.0N  16:03.0W

At about 9:00 am today Monday, we turned due west.  Hurrah!  Onto the opposite tack and off we go!  Actually now making miles to the destination instead of miles due south.  The winds have dropped a little, and the forecast is for 15-20 tomorrow so hopefully it will get a little easier.  We are doing a lot of bouncing around in the boat and it is of course difficult to sleep in the rolls, rocks and yaws.  But we are off.  If you follow the maps you will see we are south of the Canary islands and headed West. 

In the 24 hours since we started we have covered about 150 nautical miles, and that’s a good number for us. 

Today we had a radio net call (like a voice blog) and were able to see the positions of the yachts in front of us.   But in the scheme of things we know they are out there and it’s good to talk to them.  And since we do not have internet accesss we cannot use the fleet viewer to see where everyone is.  You will have more information on that than us J 

Will it’s about 7:00 pm now, time for some shuteye and back on watch at midnight for 3 hours.