Well we have finally left the beautiful Las Perlas islands and are on our way to Galapagos. We left in very light conditions and spent the day milking the breezes just to keep some air in the sails. At times our best speed through the water was 1.5kn with another 1.5kn of current in our favour. It was a long very hot tiring day. In the evening the wind came up and has climbed all night to above 30kn.we are storming along and have two reefs in and some jib out to balance it all and with the current are keeping above 8kn and surfing up to 12.5kn. The yacht is all over the place and sleeping has not been easy. Even though we had such a light day yesterday, we will have done over 150nm for the last twenty four hours. Our position at present is: 06deg25'N and 80deg12' doing 7-8kn on a heading of 225deg.
Plenty of dolphins yesterday but guess that we will not really be seeing them today as well as the odd swallow. Had a lovely curry last night and looking forward to a good day today.
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