Cape Verde to Brazil Day 4

Miss Bossy
Fabi & Scott
Wed 23 Dec 2009 15:15

11:28.17N 27:23.77W

 

After our bold statement yesterday that the wind had arrived, it promptly died on us, so only 100nm further on today than yesterday, although the weather report still gives us hope for more wind later today.

 

Miss Bossy takes a little wind to get rolling, when running downwind as we are, 10kt of wind will have us pottering at around 4kts, but then 15kt of wind will have us running at 6+kt, and 20 kts will see us at 8 or 9 kts. So we are hoping the wind strengthens a bit.

 

Not much more to report, fishing was on hold yesterday to allow whatever was eating our lures time to get bored and depart, and the last 24hrs have been more about lying around in the sun and being very busy doing nothing......

 

Christmas Eve tomorrow, so feast planning is well underway.