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Walkabout has gone Sailing
Andrew and Traci Roantree
Thu 11 Nov 2021 09:00
We have sailed for nearly 2 days with the Blue Water Runner providing most of the drive, and it has been great. Overnight, the wind has dropped (as predicted by the Ade&Bev weather routing service). We are currently not ideally set up, but will change sails to the North G1 (big blue asymmetric) and main, and change our course to head straight to Mindelo.
It feels like we are “nearly there”. But we still have 300 NM to go, and with light winds (and at our current speed) that could take 3 days!! Fingers crossed for a bit more wind and drive over the next couple of days with the G1 flying.
We had a very nice breakfast yesterday - scrambled eggs on toast, with smashed avocado and proper coffee. Set us up for the day. So for our evening meal, Traci just had a snack, but I finished off some Chicken casserole with French beans.
Evening meals are rounded off by opening one of the doors on Emily’s “Atlantic Advent Calendar” and enjoying some chocolate.
We are eating well (and doing very little exercise apart from the constant battle to stand upright). Good job we don’t have any scales on board.
Once we make our sail changes, if should be a fairly chilled day on Walkabout.
A&Tx