Dolphins
MILANO BLANCO
James Blackburn
Sat 11 Jul 2009 15:58
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11 July 2009 noon 38:56.18N 034:42.44W
Paul:
After the excitement of last night, it was great to
have more gentle winds and sea, we all managed to dry some clothes, bedding and
air the whole boat.
During the day we had many different visits from
dolphins, the best one was this morning when we had about 15 swimming under the
bow and jumping in front of it.
During late afternoon the wind came round to a cold
northerly, this did bring the bonus of chocolate from Nigel, Jamie's brother
which was so delicious and welcome,it had travelled all the way from Argentina
to antigua then to Bermuda and now nearly all the way across the
Atlantic
Untill early morning we had a great 20 knot wind on
our beam allowing us really good progress, 7-8 knots.By noon the wind had died
to less than 5 knots and we switched on the engine reluctantly, as it is only
the second time we have had to use the engine to provide drive.
We now expect to reach Horta sometime between
midnight and noon on Monday, which will have meant a 12 1/2 day crossing, a bit
better than the 19 days we had allowed.
154.2 nm covered average speed 6.4
knots
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