Poor winds !
Shiraz Atlantic Voyage 2009
Tomas Bartosz
Sat 16 May 2009 16:28
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37:37.852N 39:55.816W
Poor winds for us!
The wind is coming from a direction directly from
Horta.
We have to beat in to it at lowest possible
angle.
To sharp head wind is not the best angle for this
vessel I´m afraid.
So we are makung very small progress
ahead.
Right now we are heading north to get up to the
same latitude as Horta and the we are going to tack
south and also hope for the winds to turn a
little.
Predictions have been that they would, but we
haven´t seen it ao far.
Horta seemed so close just a few days ago when we
did great speed and were making almost 200 NM a day.
But things change here as everywhere else in
life.
The trick is to be prepered and keep the
spirit.
So easy to feel blue when things do go your
way.
But if we hang in there and try to enjoy the
present situation it is going to be fine this time too. :-)
Rumor has it that they have great steaks and the
best pineapple in the world in Horta so it seems we have something to look
forward to anyway!
We haven´t seen any more ships either and the fish
would swim our way.
Lucky we have enough food abord.
Water too.
Right now we are sailing 4 - 5 knots
21degrees and the last 24 hours we did 117. (depressing)
The wind is ENE 7 m/secon or around 13
knots.
Have a nice weekend you all and talk to you
tomorrow.
Please write us if you feel like it.
It is so fun to get a mail every once a
while.
Tomas
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