Day 8 - Arrival of the Trades
Halcyon
Rob Withers
Sun 27 Nov 2011 20:40
A week from the start, over 1000Nm gone and I think (hope) that we've
arrive in the reliable trade winds. On advice from our weather
routers, we had been heading SW towards 18N, 30W. During last night,
the wind seemed to pick up from the east, and we decided to cut the
corner and put a bit more west in the course. Time will tell if we
have turned right too soon. We now doing about 7.5 knots on about 255
Good news. After days of trying we have finally caught a fish. Bad
News: it was an unfortunate flying fish about 2cm long that we found
on deck. Sarah is particularly happy to have caught something.
Today we crossed the 30deg line so put the clocks back an hour.
Although theoretically there is a 4 hour time difference between the
Canaries and St Lucia, I think we'll stick at 1 to 2 hours ahead of
GMT. Darkness at 6:30ish is fairly civilised and nobody particularly
minds it not getting light until 8:00am
James has been baking bread brilliantly every day except today, when
he has baked a chocolate fudge cake (thanks Jo). A great way to finish
Sunday.