Atlantic Crossing day 15 Still dodging squalls

SeaWalk op reis
Sergej & Isabelle Berendsen
Mon 8 Dec 2008 12:09

Today was exiting but tiring. None of us got much good sleep. Every 2 hours or so the radar showed something nasty. And sure enough, in the real world there it was as well. Big rain clouds towering high up in the sky. Some we dodged by going North a bit and some by going South. But we didn’t managed to dodge them all. One particularly large one we just had to take head on. From behind actually because all these rain clouds were more or less stationary.

 

After we passed through a couple of them we hit Westerly winds. That would mean we went right through the Trough and now we are motor sailing with little over 5 knots of wind. After 4 hours of motoring the wind veered to the North East but still only 5 knots.

 

Hopefully the wind will increase during the night. In the mean time we got quite a show from Nature, just East of us there was a massive Lighting show. Better than the ARC fireworks and much more environmental. I just hope that Rosea won’t be too caught up in that. Rosea is just a little behind us according to the ARC positions list.

 

Everybody aboard  feels we are getting closer to St Lucia. Only 1162 miles to go (as of 8-12-2008 03:17 UTC) which means we have some 8 – 10 days to go. We crossed the Mid Atlantic Trough. That´s a major Waypoint as well.

 

The 1000-miles to go party is planned at 9-12-2008 08:00h UTC at 14:46N 43:47W and everybody is invited! Free drinks for all! So, come on Windancer, Tatt av Vinde, Ohana, Lucy Blue, Off Spring and Rosea. Turn around and come to the improvised Pontoon 17 1000 miles to go party!