A gruellng few hours left!
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Position: 36:22N 006:43W Morning readers! 1030 here and our last day hopefully!
Soooo...progress has been slow and hard this last 24 hours and the
weather really isn't doing us any favours. Traffic has got busy
too with lots of cargo and tankers through the night. We've had
variable winds and swell from different directions which has
really slowed the pace. Right now we've altered course and are
motoring East with no sails towards Cadiz to try and get some
shelter from the mainland as we've got 28 knots of ESE wind on the
nose with big swell that is causing the boat to really slam hard
if we head any further south. We tried sailing it but to no avail
as the swell is coming south of the wind causing the boat to slam
just as much until we end up on a course towards Morocco and out
into the main channel where we will undoubtedly encounter more
traffic and bigger swell. Hopefully it will ease off the closer we
get to land and then we can track it round but at the moment its
just getting bigger and more uncomfortable. So we've got 77 miles to go....hopefully that means we should be in Gib around 9pm all being well or maybe a bit sooner if these dogturd conditions improve. I fully intend to make last orders and will be doing my upmost to ensure that happens! So back to it!! and a nice pick of the sunset last night while we were moving alond nicely for a brief moment. Shalan out
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