Where are they now ..

Position: 38N27 33W42

 

Yesterday was a showering and laundry day; we have sufficient water to use the fresh water supply for this. Hoorah. The greasy feeling left after washing in salt water is just not nice.

 

We've changed course. This is just so dissimilar from racing, where the sails are constantly being trimmed for maximum speed. Here we need a good average speed towards our destination. So we are heading north to get round the expected hole in the wind. The gybes are getting better. Fewer mistakes and lots of learning going on.

 

More dolphins  - this time their timing was better and we weren't in the middle of a gybe! So we got video and pictures.

 

Then, I'm not sure all this excitement is good for us, Dean spied a yacht on the horizon. We just had to catch it. At 7 knots we were there in about 2.5 hours. This was Jess, an IP350 - quite heavy and slow - on an independant passage from Miami to the UK, with a week stopover in the Azores. He seemed pleased for the call - another "fast boat" had passed by the previous day and had not raised them. We got pictures of them - they got pictures of us. We'll swap ix in Horta or by email. It's just fantastic to get within a couple of boatlengths of another vessel this far out at sea. Marvelous.

 

We're all well and looking forward to a cheeky beer in Horta.

Can't wait to get there now

 

Thanks for the comments and the emails.

DBM