It might start to get boring, but I can only report of yet another perfect sailing day. The whole of last week has been marvelous, with my worst day (mentioned in the previous posting) of 140 miles. Then a day of 152, and all other days in the 160's. Sunny, partly clouded, wind southwesterly some 20 knots. Jib poled out. Yesterday, the wind abated a little, so flew the spinaker for some time. Gave me something to do :-).

Today we continuously sailed very fast; if conditions last til midnight this will be a 170, or maybe even a 180 mile day. But, conditions are forecast to calm down, as a high pressure cell develops over my position tomorrow. As it looks now, the wind will die out tomorrow, and by tomorrow night will be completely becalmed. But, last time predictions proved wrong and we kept some wind, so let's hope that will happen again. Still 470 miles to the Lizard.

When I get in Plymouth, I will post all my pictures on this site, so keep checking next week!

Bart

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