24:14.443N 59:01.820W
SV Eleonora
Michael A. Andronov
Sun 3 Jun 2018 00:02
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460 nm gone...
We started to get Westerliers, the boat
is dressed in gennaker. We are still motor sailing, but the wind has been
slowly picking up during the day, providing long time waited
breeze...
According the grib files I have -- we are crossing
the High ridge, and actually on another side of it. The goal -- to get 2
more degrees of Latitute, and then we should be fine with real West
wind... hopefully not too much...
And that is where the gambling started at the
moment... We have passed one high already, and there is another high
ahead, North of us... The trick I have in mind -- do turn 'left' ( meaning East
), and to pass between them, towards North, ~26 degrees... And then the
route to the East should be clear...
But the devil as always in details... In our case -- how accurate the grip files are ( the passage is really narrow ), and timing... before it will go to collapse... Weather man said -- go straight North... forget it... But that would be too borring motor sailing -- as my friend uses to say... Everything is under control
and fine. We are doing consistently about 5.5 knts today,
our course is about 53M, and the wind is starting to stabilized
at ~275M...
Until next time,
M
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