43:14.491N 20:30.4120W

SV Eleonora
Michael A. Andronov
Sat 7 Jul 2018 09:07
UTC & local time -- 0840...
Fog,   wet...
We are moving at ~4.3 knots... On a strait line from the boat to Falmouth...
All is fine!  The sun will look from the sky shortly... the fog will lift... the wind will diassapear...
 
I'm typing all above wordy phrases with just one reason -- to delay confession / admission  that we are doing a terribly slow progress...  No, I'm  doing a terribly slow progress since the boat is doing her best in conditions given...
And on top,  instead of using some breeze during the night... I've preferred to sleep...  With nice dreams, I should admit... But  I've slept instead of helping my boat...
 
We did 3110.2 nm as I'm typing...  Another computer says -- we have 748 nm to go...  In a good wind...
No, I'm not allowed to think that way... especially today, after taking all that sleep...
 
The biggest challenge ahead --  the forecast from no wind  at all to strong NNE,   exactly from the point where we have to go... Yesterday, I asked Chris to stop when he started, ' On Monday... NNE... on Tuesday... NNE... on Wednesday... NNE... On Thursday... NNE...  Are you sure you would not lke to go to South Ireland or France ? ... We are going to have wind... Just what to do about it... ' 
 
And the only good part about above session -- I've noticed thay my system analysis habit is back in action... Talking with Chris,  somewher in the corner of my mind, the record has been done... ' Weather people are blaming  everything on the ridges, troughs,   compurter model mistakes... They are so good in explanaiton why you DID NOT get what you were expecting...  To the same degree, as sailing people, like me, are blaming everything on wind, currents,  wrong conditions...  Why did not I just admit -- I do not know ( yet ? ) how to sail in those conditions?!  Period!  Luck Perron or Mike Golding would probably fly both yesterday or today... Or possition the boat properly a few days before and move today with no those '..ah, where is my wind? What weather man is going to tell me? ...'   May be it is just time to go  back to basics -- books & studies,  and more practicing?   I'm in a good spot for that --- in the Atlantic,   about 750 nm SW from UK  and ~500 nm from Northern Spain... Can I be at better place for training ?!    Instead of blaming everything on computer model(s),  its mistakes or the luck of those... '
 
Ok. Coffee time. Sending the message to blog, and coffee...
And then -- back to sailing the boat.  I DO NEED PROGRESS!!!
 
Talk soon,
M.