We took the spinnaker down for night sailing and hoisted the genoa, poled out into the goosewing formation as the wind was pretty much dead astern

 

 

Overnight the wind tended to push us too far south (we are in fact south of our destination) and as we did not want to visit the Falkland Islands we have gone onto a starboard gybe to put a bit of north into our course.  The wind is light, around 15, and we are making about 7.5,  We have covered about 2,000 nm out of an estimated total of 3,000.  The sea is pretty calm now. 

 

Reading news – I asked the crew about what they are reading on the passage.  Here is a list:

 

The Innocent – Ian McEwen

The Third Twin – Ken Follett

The Last Englishman – Malcolm Chambers (biog of Arthur Ransome)

Birds of the West Indies

Brideshead Revisited

The New Statesman (Christmas and New Year Edition)

The Goldfinch – Donna Tartt

Panasonic SD253 Breadmaker user’s manual

The Night Sky

To the Hermitage – Malcolm Bradbury

Bad Science – Ben Goldacre

Yachting Monthly (as you might expect)

Malice – Keigo Higashano (crypto Japanese whodunit)

God of Surprises – Gerard W Hughes

Guns, Germs and Steel – Jared Diamond

Essential Sailing

New Scientist

 

 

plus various podcasts, mainly BBC including Great Lives, Infinite Monkey Cage, Inside Science, Britain at Sea, UK Confidential 30 yr papers, R3 Jazz Monthly, All in the Mind, In our Time, and one member spends time re-watching Blackadder

 

pip pip

 

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