Calm morning N40:57 W41:48
Millybrown
Mark Hillmann
Mon 18 May 2009 18:20
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It was a peaceful night with full sails back up
yesterday afternoon.
By this morning it was tropical sunshine, a dying
wind but the washing got done. A full flag halyard line full.
That shows confidence in the water and gas
situation, although most was trying to get salt out of things.
The wind finally died at lunchtime and I started
the engine and motored for an hour.
That took us through the calm from south easterly
to north easterly wind.
We made 87 miles towards the Azores yesterday out
of 111 sailed, so not too bad.
See how we get on today.
Only two answers received to yesterday's problem so
far:
I understand the Americans are to be lined up along
their east coast to blow.
My reading is that this puzzling calm area
is a col with low pressure areas NE and SW and high NW and SE.
How to deal with it still looks a
mystery.
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