No Wind For 3 Days!
We are now half way to Antigua from Tenerife now, with a fairly eventful first half to the trip and a fairly grim forecast for the upcoming week, we are only to wait and see what we get. Since we left, we have had everything from 25knots downwind sailing to motoring through what looks like a pond. Through the boredom of motoring for the last few days we have found a few ways to entertain ourselves from wake boarding out the side of the boat to fishing out the back. Of which both have been fairly successful. In a fairly dramatic fight with a 6 foot blue marlin we eventually lost which in hindsight was probably a good thing judging the freezer space we have on board. On the other hand, we caught a Dorado which has fed the five of us for a few meals.
We are making fairly good progress with and ETA at the moment of the 3rd of December. However, we are not fore casted much wind, with the North Easterly trades not acting as usual. And we only have 24hours worth of fuel left with 1300miles to go, we can only hope for the best.
On board everybody is happy with a lot of book reading going on, which is occasionally postponed to try sailing instead of motoring. At the moment I am trying to get to grips with celestial navigation which is proving harder than I thought but, I’m getting there with help. In the mean time we are working on plans to go to the unofficial youth worlds match racing championships in Auckland, NZ. in February of next year. Well hopefully next time ill be here will be in a mini transat on my own but at the moment i am very happy with the experience i am getting… despite the difference between a Mini Transat and Swan 65.
Sam
