22 03N 62 11W

Osprey
John Bowering
Tue 27 Nov 2007 14:28
Osprey is now about 300 miles form Antigua and in present conditions we should conveniently arrive Thursday morning. Wind still in the 20 knot range and mostly south of east but forecast to back to the NE later. Still in the 9 to 10 knot range through the water speed and just sub 9.0 SOG. Posiition is at 1400 Zulu. Had some very confused seas yesterday which did not agree with the fuzzy logic of the Autopilot. It des however seem to have learnt as is much better dealing with similar seas this morning. Sean and Smitty both had a shower yesterday and are feeling the better for it after rough couple of days with the beam seas. To mitigate the rock and rolling effect we have come back in to the west so have lost a lot of our easterly (upwind) gain that we made heading to Warren Browns point. We are currently heading direct for Antigua and will have to see how the westerly current takes us tommorrow. We may have to go around the west side of the island - not that it matters much as English harbour is on the southern side.