Day 4

Oyster Moon
Paul Foskett & Rhu Nash
Wed 30 Nov 2011 11:44
Position 17 39.92N 032 15.67W

Day 4 on the 30th November 2011

>From 12.00 UTC on the 29th, to Noon on the 30th November, distance travelled from Cape Verde is now 503 miles on the trip.

Noon to noon run was 177 miles

Distance to go to just south of the island is 1,689 miles.

24 hour sailing report

The wind has maintained a speed from 15 to 22 knots from the ENE or NE. We are sailing with the genoa and main fully out as the wind is just aft of the beam.

We kept sailing at a steady 6 to 7 knots, but we did put some Northing in our track to keep up a better speed through the night, which also made for a more comfortable sail.

We are now on the track course of 288 degrees.

No rain over the last 24 hours.

Not much wild life day today, just flying fish and a few sea birds.

We have had another flying fish on the deck.

I have had the fishing rod out yesterday for 4 hours no fish!!!

It is out again today. Karacool has caught 4 fish so far.

We are now sailing in company with three other boats, Moin a German boat about 40 feet long, and Marite 111 also 40 feet and Karacool the 53 foot CAT who is also one of our group boats.

We all left within about an hour of each other. Karacool is now 70 miles ahead of us in Oyster Moon. Moin is about 18 miles behind with Marita 111 about 17 miles behind us.

More news on the next noon report

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