Day 12 Canaries-Martinique

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 Thursday 20th Nov '25

Thought I uploaded this on Thursday night (Sat 03:00 now) but obviously not, oopsie....

 

Great day to be a sun worshiper or powerboat owner as the sun was beating down, sea was slight and wind minimal, again!

BUT - I have just come back up from my cabin after a little nap to do my 21:00-000 watch and the wind is finally starting to fill in.  

When I looked at the weather forecast a couple of days ago it was obvious that if we continued in a straight line to Martinique we were going to be doing a fair bit of motoring as the wind was going to die the further west we got so I decided to head a bit more south west as there seemed to be more wind a hundred miles or so further south from where we were.  

It seems I got that right as we now have 15-20kt trade winds blowing from the east and we are once again sailing properly with big red and the headsail out "wing on wing'' trucking along nicely averaging around 8kts, whoop whoop.

Also tomorrow we will be half way between Cape Verde and Martinique.  Half way across the Atlantic with only 1,200nm to go.

FYI - for those of you that don't know the deposit has already been paid for me to jump back on the boat at the begining of April next year
in Shelter Bay, Panama to take her through the canal and onward to Hiva Oa, in the Marquesas, Tahiti.  Needless to say I am looking forward to that trip!


                                               End of another hard day at the office..............




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