What is this storm going to do? 40:41.27N 11:34..2W
Ellatrout3
Mon 23 May 2016 09:09
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Saturday night was a beautiful moonlit
seascape giving me a fast down hill ride After my first hours sleep
this had turned into a roller coaster while I was asleep and ET was struggling
to cope with all the sail we were carrying, she was doing a sustained 9 knots at
times, but didn't broach, she's pretty good! I reefed down to make it
more managable and went for another hours sleep while ET roared
on.
Dawn came beautiful and clear and the wind
gradually died leaving me floppig about and going nowhere. Looking
back it was a good day, the sky was blue the sea was blue and it was WARM. I
shed my waterproof trousers and seaboots for the first time! It was a
lovely, my sailing appetite would have been repleat had it not been for the
threatening storm out to the west.
Yes the storm - Well it seems to have stalled
between me and the Azores allowing me to slip further south. It started as a
nice tidy round depressoin racing west across the Atlantic. It is now
anticipated the back end will stop over the Azores while the leading edge
continues on and swings NE. I am now hoping I have got sufficiently south to
miss the worst of the first half of the storm. The problem is where do I go next
with the back end of the now eliptical storm stuck over the Azores dishing out
65Km/Hr winds (40 mph or 35Kts)? At the moment I am heading south west and about
130 miles west of Lisbon. Not really the best route to the
Azore!!!
We wait and we watch?
Poppa/Dad/Roger
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