We been here a day now.  Life on land is full of hussle and bussle!  We both managed to walk without the time at sea having any effect. The green is marvellous.  The cooling wind is very welcome as well. First task after the sign in is to find  a launderette.  Mary has kept up […]

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Position 14.46,-59.85 at 10:37 GMT 60.5 miles to go. Wind ENE 5 The wind slowly decreased yesterday and left an awkward swell. So we quickly decided to start motoring top the batteries and fill the tanks with water. We mototred up to a couple of ARC boats. Before dark we set the sails and went […]

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Position 14.90,-57.45 at 10:36 GMT 202 miles to go ETA at 5 knots 00:06 Monday 15th Dec. Wind SE 4 This should be the penultimate report.  If we can keep up 6 knots we will arrive last light on Sunday evening.  Seeing more sailing boats. There was one just ahead all of yesterday that we […]

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Position 14.55,-54.87 at 10:50 GMT 350 miles to go. ETA Martinique at 5 knots 05:56 15th Dec Wind E 5 In the trade winds proper now. Wind waxes and wains from 15 knots to 25 knots, biggish sea. We have up full jib and 2 reefs in the main. Very comfortable, no chaffing meeting 6 […]

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Position 14.34,-52.22 at 10:03 GMT 504 miles to go.  ETA at 5kn 12:03 (midday) 15th Dec Wind E 5. Two boats in sight most of yesterday and a few more on the radio close by.  T Rex is an ARC boat and he is catching fish like the dorado with his 5 inch lure system. […]

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Position 14.38,-49.58 at 10:02 GMT 658 miles to go.  ETA at 5 knots 18:42 15th Dec. Wind E force 5/6 Yesterday we couldn’t quite summon up the energy to do anything significant.  It was hot and Giselle was going plenty well enough under main and jib.  So we changed the boat time.  Now at GMT-3. […]

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Position 14.27,-46.91 at 08:39 GMT 813 miles to go. ETA at 5 kn 00:24 16th Dec. Wind NE 5. Lighter winds yesterday and we had up the reacher. The previous owner had added “bloudy” in front of the word reacher on the bag. Not her favourite sail! It is a masthead 170% overlap light genoa. […]

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Position 14.33,-44.45. 957 miles togo. ETA 05:11 16th Dec at 5kn. Wind NNE 4. We started the day motoring which means there is any amount of fresh water from the water maker. The boat, crew and clothes got a good clean! Salt crystals build up fast around the boat making everything sticky so great to […]

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Position 14.20,-42.12.  1093 miles to go. Just Halfway. ETA at 5kn 08:20 16th Dec Wind now Force 1 from south. By staying in the cloudy trough area yesterday we managed to keep 15-20knots of wind all day, rather than the 5 knot from the wider weather forecast.  The penalty was finally getting “convective squalls” as […]

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Position 14.84,-39.62. 1237 miles togo ETA at 5 kn 12:58 16th Dec. Wind E 4. Still good speeds, no light winds yet. We are well past the 1/4 and the 1/3 distance milestones and should reach the halfway one tomorrow. Eaten the last of the fresh fruit from Cape Verde but still got some fresh […]

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