14:19.51N 58:06.81W
Relentless across The Atlantic
Nigel Houghton
Tue 9 Dec 2014 21:06
TUESDAY DECEMBER 9
Position at 2100 GMT: 14 deg 19.51 north, 58 deg 06.81 west
Currently 55 miles north west of Barbados, 166 miles to St Lucia
Here’s an odd position to be in: having spent the last 21 days setting
sails, changing them, trimming them, re-setting them to coax every last bit of
speed out of Relentless we now find ourselves deliberately making her slow down
a bit!
This is why: we’re just 166 miles from the northern-most tip of St Lucia
(the gap between the island and Martinique) and we want to arrive there at about
0200 our time on Thursday. If we get there too soon we’ll have to hang around in
the dark because we don’t want to go into the harbour at Rodney Bay until it’s
daylight, as it’s a tricky entrance with lots of yachts moored there.
Today has been stinking hot again, so we’ve all had showers (Dave had his
on deck from a bucket) and because we’ve gone so far west now it’s still hot in
the sun at 1800. Sunset won’t be for about another 45 minutes, then it will cool
down a little (but only a little). Tomorrow we cross the 60 West longitude line
and our clocks go back another hour, putting us four hours behind the UK.
Crew dinner on deck tonight will be corned beef hash with beans, followed
by a tin of fruit with custard. All good wind-producing material.
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