Day 5 steady as she goes.
Moondancer
Thu 27 Nov 2008 16:51
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After yesterday's drama of Fiona up the mast we
spent a good day at moderate speed with the spinnaker up, before retreating at
dusk to just our mainsail with the genoa poled out on the other side.
20 hours later we have not touched the rig, or
altered course, (about 235 degrees); looking at the weather
forecasts we may not do so for another three days. (If you believe weather
forecasts)
Today the winds have picked up to about 15 knots
and we are making very good progress between 6 and 8 knots pointing just to the
West of the Cape Verde Isles, which we should pass in two days or so, we
then intend to keep going a little further southwest into stronger trade
winds before turning completely west to head to St Lucia.
Yesterday we saw a mass of small schooling tuna
rushing past and all jumping, looking at the photos closely this morning we
could see why, in the next shot what we thought were more tuna were dolphins
hunting their next meal.
  This morning I was on watch and treated to a
spectacular colour show that lasted nearly an hour before the sun came
up.
 Thanks to those that have sent emails, we are not
too busy to receive them as some have thought. Do delete any footers you may
have though, and do not copy my original message back to me!
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