Another beautiful Atlantic day
Snellevliet
Mon 24 Jun 2019 19:23
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The "lazy day" yesterday was still in racing mode. Just
you know.
The evening yesterday and this evening has been
initiated with a Dolphin show. Yes, it's getting boring, but it reamins a
joyfull spectacle that makes us realize how special this is. Let's not get it to
waste buy being neglected and respect this nature.
From yesterday evening it became clear that the Frnech
side is the most favourable one. We changed course hoisted the heavy spi,
direction France. THe wind picked too much and at around 02:00 hr we dropped the
spi took the small genua off and set up the larger genua.
And here we are still going on port tack with a COG of
060°.
The wind will turn more East, then North East and
by Wednesday back to East. With 310 NM to go we predict an ETA of Wednesday
afternoon/evening. We hope that the wind won't drop as predicted.
In a little bit we'll be eating hte leftover of the
Bolognese with pasta accompanied with a beautifull sundawner, a good way going
in to the night. Besides a large cargoship aboutn 8 miles away nothing to more
to see.
We keep on chasing the best we can, and the last 100
miles looks already interesting with Windspeeds and direction changes. We must
keep a close eye on that.
Have a great evening and more tomorrow!
Snelle Vliet,
Jan
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