Hi All

I hope all is well with everyone

All good here

Time 2215 BST Friday 11/5/18

Day 9 – sailing along a 45 degree magnetic course, closed hauled

Day 10 – changed No 3 Jib for the old No1 at 1700. During the night the wind veered and we held a close hauled course of 85 deg M through the night

Day 11 – At 1100 the wind veered again and we freed off and held the 85 deg M course. We had been on a close hauled starboard tack for 8.5 days and the Hydrovane had steered the whole time.

Our weather router is still sending forecasts every 2 days and the sat phone has been receiving them well. Good forecast for the next 4 days

Grib downloads working well for our own forecasts

Jackie, Mike, Jan, Valerie and Carol  – thanks for the messages on messaging .iridium

Sun sights are going well.

We are now 1155Nm (Nautical Miles) from Antigua and we have  1134 Nm to go to Horta in the Azores

It’s nice to get to halfway.

Best regards

3Js and P