#1. Lagos—>Las Palmas | Day 4 at-sea
Day 4 and we are all now falling into the regular routine of life at sea - the times of our different watches, the writing up of the hourly log and the drinking of coffee. On this trip there has been a lot of coffee drinking. Everyone’s appetites have improved as we have found our sea legs and we all want it to carry on for longer.
We had another perfect sailing night followed by a spectacular sunrise helped by the Sahara dust brought in by the Easterly wind. At 1146UTC we passed our 600NM point on the trip with just 170NM to go, so we hope to arrive at about mid day tomorrow. Skipper Alex has positioned us to the east of Lanzarote to take advantage of the SE wind which will pushing us towards Las Palmas and our end destination. We started the day broad reaching with Easterly wind, then at about 1330 the wind veered to the SE and we hauled in the sails to a close reach. Sailing along smoothly at 8/9knots. What a fabulous ride.
// Jojo
