Position 1200 UTC +0200hrs 1st December  20:40.00 N 33:07.00 W   1637 miles to go. 

 

OK so we appear to have now two things that were hitherto missing from our sailing.  We have bright sunshine as well as warm temperatures and we also seem to have found the trade winds at last so are currently sailing with full main and full poled out genoa at between seven and a half and eight knots.  To make things even better, we’re going in the direction we want to go. 

 

Yesterday being Sunday was a roast dinner day and we supped on lovely roast lamb and vegetables followed by apple crumble.  Well done Jennie it was superb.

 

Slow progress overnight but today has been good so far and we’re optimistic for the next few days.  Another flying fish on the deck when we got up this morning. 

 

We completed another two quizzes yesterday between dinner and dessert.  Richie was again on fine form and won both of them.

 

Anthony did an astro sight today and got us within 3 miles of our current position so the gps is working fine.

 

Minor vegetable disaster in that we lost our second stash of carrots to mould.  Bit unexpected that but we still have fresh vegetables and fresh fruit as well as fresh milk which makes the tea taste even better.