Day 10 Canaries-Martinique

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 Tuesday 18th Nov '25

Another chilled out day of motor sailing.  

We have had big red out basically since we left the Canaries and the other head sail out when we are straight downwind so wing on wing and rolled up when we are sailing off the wind.  The main has been up twice for an average of about 20mins each time!  It just gets in the way, flaps around and is a complete pain to raise and drop so it's down, folded away and will probably stay that way for the rest of the trip.

When we left Verde I decided to set the clocks to Martinique time.  I usually set all clocks/watches to the arrival destination.  So out of habit I decided to follow my normal routine.  This proved to be a bit of a mistake as sunrise is around 03:30 and it starts getting dark around a similar time in the afternoon.  Ooopsie!  Our usual dinner time of 18:00 is had in the dark which makes the daily "sun downer" beer a bit strange so we decided to have the "sun downer" at sundown up on the fly bridge seating area.  That worked!

We are currently half way between the Canaries and Martinique or 25% of the way between Cape Verde and Martinique.  We are the blue spot, circled to the right is Cape Verde and cirecled to the left is Martinique 1,500nm away  It's a big ocean! 



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