Breaking Up Is Hard To Do ~ Day 2/3 Panama - Galapagos
Balvenie
Mark Farrell & Amanda Church
Thu 18 Jun 2015 17:27
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Position at 1215 local 1715 UTC 03 36N
081 53W 18 June
24 hour yesterday run only 100 miles, today wont be
much better.
Currently motoring in under 2 knots wind, glassy seas but ocean swell and lots of other currents swells going on making for a messy sea, now sunny/hazy skies, COG 190 degrees, SOG 5.7 knots Yesterday was horrible, started ok sailing with
full sails in light winds but then forecast trough and thunderstorms came
through and threw everything at us for several hours, torrential rain,
lightening and thunder, winds from every direction but thankfuly nothing over
about 22 knots.
The heavy cloud cover stayed with us all day and
night, with no breaks in it and an exceptionally dark night was not enjoyed.
After the storm passed
the seas were all churned up and have settled somewhat but we are still bobbing
up and down way more than we should be.
It also took all the wind so we are now motoring
south trying to get to the light trades.
This morning dawned quite clear, there is cloud on
the horizon, hopefully it will bring some wind. We are both
well but very very tired and hot, about 540 miles to run.
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