Friday 27th Evening report 13 16.547N 55 50.473W
Persephone... Cruiser/Racer
Nigel & Karen Goodhew...
Fri 27 Jan 2017 20:53
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The trade winds are here! These particular
winds have created some fantastic sailing conditions. It is 28 degrees, the sun
is shining and we have 17 knots of breeze.
So until about 1800 we kept the same
sailplan...deep running under the old but still good heavyweight
spinnaker.
But the seas are lumpy and we are getting a bit
tired, so at 1800 we took the kite down to enjoy a maintenance free late
afternoon and evening. As I write, we are topping up the water supplies
and contemplating the last 200 miles or so, of our journey.
We want to arrive in daylight. There are some
interesting reefs to the south of Barbados, which are marked, but Caribbean
lights are notoriously unreliable, so a daytime arrival to a new island we have
never visited before, is definitely preferable.
So to slow down a little, from around 8 knots to
6.5 overnight, helps us achieve that aim. Current projections have us in
the anchorage at Bridgetown, mid morning on Sunday.
It's been a blat...not quite over yet, but the
sense of it is beginning to sink in. Ant although we are going to take 19
days and some hours, which is 3 days longer than our trip across with the ARC, the conditions have been completely different this
time. And, we seem to be 230 miles (nearly 36 hours) ahead of Win2Win, a
similar sized boat who left La Gomera with us.
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