Speeding up

Blanshard
Sat 19 Jun 2010 14:35
Position 36 25.38N 017 18.90W  Log reading 15521.7  Distance covered 186 miles
 
We're in a bit of a rut now, still on port tack as we have been for 5 days but making better speed as we have been able to bear away a little.  Our world is still on a slope but a little less bumpy.
The ocean seems devoid of life here compared to the central atlantic: we have only had brief visitations by porpoises, no whales and even our swallow has disappeared. The sun is shining and the forecast looks stable so four or five more days to go until we hit land.
Alastair complains of water dripping onto his head at night from the mast - an elegant pink towel has been wrapped around it but it still finds a way through to continue the chinese torture.  Maybe it is just in his dreams (wet?)