“Halfway house” is a term for the zone between prison and normal life and today at 1710 we passed the halfway house and are now closer to Cape Verde than GC. Only 429 nm to go. We are celebrating with one glass of red wine each, in leu of rum, as they did in the old days marine ships. On top, today has been named big shower day – first a dip in the cooling Atlantic sea and then a shower in fresh water. Yes I know – but out her, it is a treat.
We have a fantastic trip, the crew is enjoying themselves. We have entered into the phase where everybody can stand a single watch, which gives us all more time off. We enjoy great meals and the sun is shining. The first 24 hours we had a lot of wind and waves, then it was very satisfactory and now it is too little. And around 1600 hours today we were lying there – still in the water, only going up and down with the swell. So currently we are spending a few of the precious engine hours, hunting for more wind.
Position today is 22 deg 16 W and 019 deg 53 W, the wind is 5 kn from N and sog is 7.1 and cog is 233 deg.
Greetings from all of us.