Transatlantic 1st Day
Ile Jeudi
Bob and Lin Griffiths
Tue 26 Feb 2013 13:23
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16:01.96N 26:17.09W
Tuesday 26 February 2013 at 1100 (1200
UTC)
Distance Run 89 nautical miles (since 1600 UTC
yesterday)
Distance to Go 1950 nm
We left Mindelo yesterday at 3pm local time after
saying a couple of farewells. Two other boats are leaving today an hour or
two after us. We have agreed to speak on VHF if we can at 8.15pm and am
everyday. Last night's conversation went well but as expected we were
already moving out of VHF range of eachother by this morning when we could hear
them intermittently but they couldn't hear us.
We are aiming first for a waypoint 365 nm SW of
Mindelo as we need to get south to avoid a flat calm area which lies on the
direct route. We had a quiet start and speed dropped to 2 knots at times
overnight. The wind increased this morning again and the sea is picking
up. We know that there are some large swells coming from the deep low
pressure system hundreds of miles to the north of us but apparently this is a
typical feature of the Atlantic and we just have to accept it.
That's it for now.
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