Nach ausgiebigen Kreuzübungen nun die Belohnung: auf Schienen zu den Azoren.
Hello everyone, Just a short update today as we are both quite tired. The good news is that finally we are sailing downwind!!!! It has taken us about 1,350 miles of difficult and often unstable upwind conditions to get on the conveyor belt to the Azores but we have made it and are expecting to be under 1000 miles to Horta by tomorrow morning.
The forecast looks good for the next few days. Today we are under the influence of a nasty and fast moving low pressure system, but are hopefully positioned far enough south that we will not see any crazy wind speeds.
Last night was another driftathon with a left over swell, which meant a lot of slatting sails and an uncomfortable slow sail. However, we now have the pleasure of decent speeds - 11.3 knots as I write and an almost flat boat, unlike the 25 degree heel we have had to get used to for much of the trip so far.
So all good on board and we have just made it into a new time zone so we are now 3 hours behind UTC.
POSITION @ 1050 UTC 29 03.3N 049 34.9W
A tired but happy
Hannah & Anna
Foto: Hannah/Anna
Hello everyone, Just a short update today as we are both quite tired. The good news is that finally we are sailing downwind!!!! It has taken us about 1,350 miles of difficult and often unstable upwind conditions to get on the conveyor belt to the Azores but we have made it and are expecting to be under 1000 miles to Horta by tomorrow morning.
The forecast looks good for the next few days. Today we are under the influence of a nasty and fast moving low pressure system, but are hopefully positioned far enough south that we will not see any crazy wind speeds.
Last night was another driftathon with a left over swell, which meant a lot of slatting sails and an uncomfortable slow sail. However, we now have the pleasure of decent speeds - 11.3 knots as I write and an almost flat boat, unlike the 25 degree heel we have had to get used to for much of the trip so far.
So all good on board and we have just made it into a new time zone so we are now 3 hours behind UTC.
POSITION @ 1050 UTC 29 03.3N 049 34.9W
A tired but happy
Hannah & Anna
Foto: Hannah/Anna
