21 11.02N 02520.339W At sea 11:47Z Day 6

Pipedream
Mon 30 Jan 2012 11:22
All is well. It turns out a low pressure traugh has disrupted the trade winds and we likely have another day of variable light winds to ride before we can make and real progress west. Yesturday we experimented with the full spinnaker. We rigged it first with one clew pined to the front of the boat. ATN sells a specal cuff for that. It worked ok and then spun around the head stay. After straghitening that out we put the wisker pole on the other clew and that stabilize things well. We were able to make almost 6 kts in 8 kts of wind. (must have been come current) When we took it down the haylard was almost cut through... maybe from the twisting? I think I can swedge a new end on it and get it going again. Spinnakers of any kind do not want to be part of this trip.

We are actively processing all the fresh food left aboard. Vegies are kicing off and we are cooking most of what is left in the freezer so we can shut that down and just use the fridge. We have used about 25% of our water and about the same on the fuel side.

Everyone is settling into a nice passage rythme. We have talked about making land fall somewhere north of the Barbados to save some time getting back to Florida and stetching my crew resources. More later.