15.00 Local 16 April
Course: 224°
Distance covered last 24hrs until 01h00 UTC: 123 nm
Distance to Galapagos: 470nm
Position 03°28 N 083°40 W
Well another good days sailing with the wind remaining changeable. The night was most pleasant with flat seas and a fairly steady boat, so we all managed to get some good sleep. Our friends on the other two boats, Sharkita (NZ) and Fidelio (Austrian) are in close range and enjoying similar conditions. The wind has been really good and the longer it stays like this the less time it will take to get there and the less very light breezes to no wind cost a lot in diesel.
All's well on board and we have the genaker up at the moment with the wind on our beam. We are just managing to keep along the rum line and do not wish to get out to the west of it.
It is amazing the amount of tree trunks etc out here. Even though we keep watch all the time we mostly see them when they are on our beam. Some of them are double the length of our yacht that easily puts them past 20m. Some have small diameters like the palm trees and others that could be a meter plus in diameter. May our bow stay clear of all of them and any other junk floating out here?
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