16:32.67N 53:28.27W
Sunday 4th December – 0015 GMT Another 200 Miler
Our
position at 1900 GMT Thursday 1st December: 16:50.00N;
46:46.30W
Our
position at 1900 GMT Friday 2nd December: 16:44.60N;
50:16.66W
Distance covered calculated as rhumb line (line of constant bearing):
202.7NM
Distance calculated as great circle (shortest possible distance on
globe): 201.5NM
Either way it's another 200 mile day.
We
are now a little over 450NM from St Lucia. At about 1600 GMT (1800 ship's
time) we gybed onto the direct course for St Lucia. We know that the wind
is going to die on us. We know that we can more than hold our own in tough
conditions where our sails (particularly Percy) are easier to control than
standard racing sails. So, we like that stuff mainly because most
opposition hates it (if opposition can be said to exist when one is quite
definitely not racing - but let's just suppose one were). We ain't quite
so sure about more civilized conditions. Sure, the G&T won't spill (it
won't anyway aboard Arnamentia at the moment but we won't go into that again)
but we haven't got aboard the normal general purpose sails that might just do us
better here. However, we'll
see.