Day 7 - we're not going straight

Touch of Grey's web diary
Fri 25 Nov 2016 17:34
25 Nov 15:00 20.17.70N 27.17.10W It may be obvious on the tracking graphics by now that we are not sailing directly to Barbados. We are taking the southern route, the favoured route when all ships were powered by the wind and where the navigational instructions were to sail SW towards the Cape Verde islands until the butter melts and then turn west. Wd keep our butter in the fridge so are using GPS to sail to a waypoint 200 miles NW of Cape Verde's Sao Vincente island. We expect to get there at about 10pm this evening.