All in all we kept the breeze pretty well and have maintained reasonable boatspeed throughout the difficult conditions, now is pretty desperate but again boatspeed is OK considering. Spotted a boat to our starboard side, though we felt that last night and failed to figure out who it was likely to have been, we went forwards on it so hope Nisida, or Desna - time will tell.

 

What we could do with is a more up to date perspective of the progress of the trough and our progress through it. We could also do with a steer as to gybing when the breeze is in its right phase, as my understandin gis that whilst it's tempting to point at the destination after all this time, we should get out quicker the more we get west, and a little south as necessary. Also I'd be interested if you believe we have enough leverage/separation on Nisida, P42 and Desna - 60 miles NW, 50 m NNW, and 25 m N respectively to see a situaion where we are making gains as they have less, worse breeze and spend longer (time and distance) sailing through the trough.