Day 5

Oyster Moon
Paul Foskett & Rhu Nash
Thu 1 Dec 2011 13:03
Position 17 44.43N 034 49.17W

Day 5 on the 1st December 2011

>From 12.00 UTC on the 30th, to Noon on the 1st December, distance travelled from Cape Verde is now 674 miles on the trip.

Noon to noon run was 171 miles

Distance to go to just south of the island is 1,544 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.

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.

I have had the fishing rod out yesterday for 4 hours and caught a fish!!!

We ate it for supper, and very good it was. Picture on the blog when we get WI-FI in Antigua

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 110 miles ahead of us in Oyster Moon. Moin is about 22 miles behind with Marita 111 about 20 miles behind us.

More news on the next noon report

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