[password] rachel25
[position] 49 25.760s 056 13.243w
[status] On passage Falklands to St Helena.
We've been plodding into a 25 - 30 knot Northerly all day, close hauled on port tack. Seas not too bad, about 2metres, but the occasional goffer still bursts on the windward bow and sends a deluge 40feet aft into the cockpit, often, just as I am emerging to take a breath of sea air. The front is supposed to be passing about now and here are hopeful signs, the wind backing slightly and the barometer's fall slowing down. Ana has been surprisingly upright and eating, this very good for me as I had some opportunity to be horizontal.
We've emerged from the furious fifties and are now in the roaring forties, so far they have been cold, damp and not very inspirational!
But overall all is well and we are heading north, slightly faster than a snail.
[speed] 6.0 knots
[heading] 022 true
[weather] Wind NW 25 knots. 2.0m waves. Sky 100% cloud. Baro 1014.
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