Day 11

Just look at that position!  I had to cheat a bit and take the readings at 3 minutes past 8am!  So we’re now back in the northern hemisphere.  If it wasn’t so cloudy at nights we might have had a glimpse of the Plough.

Good day yesterday with 2 knot current until late afternoon then it started to drop off a bit and has gradually gone down to around 0.5knots.   According to the file it should be between 2 and 3 knots so don’t know what’s happened to it.  We are off the Amazon delta, so maybe something is happening as a result. At around 5pm we had a squall – just managed to get the sails reefed before it really hit us – have kept the reefs in all night as the wind has now gone further ahead onto a close reach.

Date and time: 26th Feb 2016; 0803 GMT

24 hours distance:   205nm

Position: S00:00:000 W042:50:97