Day 14 - Canaries-Martinique

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 Saturday 22nd Nov '25

Midnight on Saturday and 850nm to go.......

Due to the wind dropping yesterday we had another look at the forecast which showed the wind is still further south from where we are so we changed course from W to WSW to try and pick up the trade winds again.  

This seems to have worked.  As we are heading further south the wind has picked up nicely.  We have had a steady 15-20kts of wind for the past few hours but we will continue heading further down probably for the next day of so just to make sure before changing and heading back towards Martinique again.

We have had the 2 headsails out for the majority of this trip but as you can see from the photo there's not a lot to see from the flybridge!  Its like sailing blind and if you stay up there while sailing wing on wing you have to rely on the instruments to "see" what's ahead so we spend 99% of our time on watch downstairs in the saloon where you have normal visibility.  We have all the instruments at the nav station in the front of the saloon including the auto pilot which steers the boat way better than any human.





Fun fact  -  

Night watches are currently spent in pitch black as the moon is in what's called the "Waxing Crescent" phase which means it is a small sliver of light growing bigger everyday.  According to Google we are only getting 5% of illumination from it.




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