“40:06.037N 25:37.851W”

The first 24 hours of any long passage are always stressful.  This one has started very gently and we have been sailing in less than 12 knots of wind on a calm sea......so quite that we stayed under full sail including the mizzen staysail all night. 

There are a couple ships’ AIS signals dotted around our chart plotter screen but none coming close enough to give us concerns.

We were followed in the night by a couple of Cory’s Shearwaters nattering away.......such an eerie sound in the middle of an ocean.