We have now been sailing for 24 hours and our position is as follows:
12*21.564' North
64*25.632' West
We lost our initial wind about half an hour after we left at about 3.30 pm Thursday and motored for about 2 hours. Then the breeze picked up and we landed up galloping along at an average of 6.5 knots with our fastest speed over water being 9.88 knots - and this morning at 6 am we had covered 103.6 nm - and we have covered a total of 166.1 in 24 hours. Our best ever to date. The strange thing is we do not have the current pushing us - our water speed is greater than our speed over ground. We were hoping for a 2 knot push which most sailors report.
We have a stow-away on board - he/she arrived this morning on Colin's watch pretty exhausted - a swallow. He has flown off 3 times and is not aboard at the moment - the first time he left was for about 20 minutes - the second time just under 2 hours, so are not sure if he will return. The swallow was fairly people friendly - we could move past him close by and he sat on Colin's knee and foot and sat on my finger. Colin was also disturbed from a rest by the swallow fluttering around his face - we feel very honoured to have had this visitor taking a brake on our yacht.
The sailing conditions are a bit uncomfortable with a northerly swell of about 2-3 metres and a north easterly swell of 1.5 - 2 metres so lots of holding on required. The sea seems flatter than when we did the Atlantic crossing and no growling waves breaking at our stern this time.
We had quite a large rain squall at about 4.30 this morning - making the cockpit an uncomfortable place to be.
We we'll send another position report in about 24 hours.
Hugs and smiles
Colin & Sandy
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