It's a Very Long Way 40:04.4N 40:37.3W sailed from Newport 1459 miles; and to go to Terceira 630
Ellatrout3
Thu 17 Jul 2014 20:26
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Following my East/West comparison the day before yestrday
I decided to take a closer look. I was 40.5°W going east on the 1st June and arrived on the 22nd, a
total of 21 days. I left Newport on the 6th July, I am now at
40.5°W and it has only taken 11days. Strong winds
in both directions but what a difference both in time and effort!!
We are still pressing on at a great pace and at this rate
I was hoping to make Flores by the 20th but I see from the weather charts the
the centre of the Azores High (where there is no wind of course!) is chasing me
east and may catch me before I make landfall in Flores. It looks a
close run thing but my forecast does not go far enough ahead to suggest what its
going to do?
Following on from this I did an analysis of this out bound
run and results below show that only on one day did I average less than 5kts and
on 4 days I averaged over 6kts; and the average for the whole 11 days is ove
5.5kts. Quite amazing!!
The only natural thing to report today was I saw three birds; small, black
fast flying very different from the cruising shearwaters gliding over the
sea. no idea what tey were unless they were Petals but they were too big
to be storm petrals.
Love Poppa/Dad/Roger
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