Day 150 - Caribbean Passage - Day 24
Midnight we had made it
as far as 16:20.08N 53:0.94W – Friday 19th of December, 2008. Engine Time – 10.6
Hours We sailed the best we could
through the night to be totally becalmed by 5:30 AM as per normal, it is a
horrible sound as the boat rocks back and forth and all you can here is the
sails flapping and the rigging cracking. On goes the engine at a
lazy 1600 RPM just enough to tick her over and make Silky travel along at about
3 Knot’s. Believe me a puff of wind can make us move faster than this so
the engine is really the last resort. We motored all day and
watched squalls of rain poor down around us but never on us. We watch the
sun scorch the boat and us for that matter. We watched the water and each
other. We were both close to going mad; we had been through this already in our
trip at the beginning and did not want to do it again. I tell you no wind is
worse than too much wind. Well some wind did make
it our way by the evening, check out the clouds in the picture’s Fi and I
both thought the world was about to collapse in on itself. Special
comments by Fiona: Becalmed once again! Back in
the day (all of last year) when we were learning to sail Silky in the Day 150 Traveling Direction
– West Wind Direction –
No Wind until 8PM (North) Swell – Flat as a
pancake Average Speed
– 3.9 Top Speed – ? Distance Covered –
93.6 Nautical Miles |