Day 95 - Leg 5 Day 18 at Sea 'Where are the winds?'
Seaduced
John & Jane Craven
Sun 27 Sep 2015 14:08
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We were up at first light and spent the next couple of
hours getting the boat ready to go and had breakfast. We raised the anchor
and, at 08.00, set off on the remainder of the leg to the Cape Verdes. We
managed to sail for around 3 hours on Friday but then the wind died and the
engine went back on.
At midnight the wind picked up and the sails came out
until 14.00 on Saturday when we were forced to motor once more. Since
then, the winds have been very light and we have been plodding along, under
engine, at around 7.5 knots.
One of the problems about writing a blog whilst at sea
is that, very often, nothing happens at all for days. We complete a
log every hour which, apart from logging time, latitude, longitude, distance
log, course, wind strength and direction, plus a few other incidentals,
also has a comments section for each hour. Rather than make things
up, below is the entire day's log of comments for today, a quiet
day.
00.00
01.00
02.00
03.00
04.00 Bright moon
tonight
05.00 Wind picked up and died off
again
06.00 Watch handover
07.00
08.00
09.00
10.00 Generator and watermaker on
@ 10.40
11.00
12.00 Watch handover
13.00 Sausage casserole for
lunch; watermaker off 13.20
14.00 Skies clearing; generator
off 13.25
15.00 Watch handover; took
some sun sights
16.00
17.00
18.00
19.00
20.00
21.00
22.00 Amazing moon
23.00
As you can see, nothing
much happened, so there is not much to write about. Let's hope that the
next post is more interesting!!
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