Yesterday afternoon the wind stayed with us and through the night. Winds were out of the SW ranging between 12 -20 knots giving us an average hull speed of 7 knots. We had been informed that we might see some rain and possible thunderstorms but figured they would be south & east of us. Luckily that was the case. We saw some sheet lightening both to the north and south of us, but nothing over us at all. It made for a pretty easy night passage as we had prepared with having reduced sail in preparation of stronger winds in the overnight hours. This wind made for a great day total of 154 nautical miles bringing our total miles traveled so far to 1,898 as of 6:30AM this morning. Bob figured that it appears that we are approximately 540 miles to Flores in the Azores when he worked the numbers at 10AM. This can definitely change as anyone that sails knows you definitely do not go in a straight line from point to point. We heard from the weather router this afternoon that we probably should still continue to travel eastward and hopefully sometime tomorrow afternoon be able to start heading north toward the Azores. It is definitely getting closer! As a result this afternoon both of us were practicing some common Portuguese words so at least we have a few to use when we arrive. I'm sure Bob's will come back to him more as he hears it even though continental Portuguese is quite different from Brazilian Portuguese.
We have had seas of about 8-10' and Tsamaya has been surfing them quite well. In looking out at them today I thought about how far I (Janice) have come from the days when we first had our Tartan 30 on Cayuga Lake when I wasn't sure I wanted to go out on the lake if there were any whitecaps. Thankfully Bob was a patient teacher with me, otherwise we never would have been able to do this crossing.
Take care & as always will keep the blog updated daily for you.
Our position as of 2:30PM EST is 33.56N, 39.30W with a current hull speed of 6.5-7 and 90 degree heading.
Best wishes – Bob & Janice
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