[password] rachel25,
[position] 40 39.112s 049 54.521w
[status] On passage Falklands to St Helena.
The moon is new but moving from teen, to middle age. We had her hanging in the western sky for a couple of hours this evening before she was cocooned in billows of grey cloud. It's good to have a moon and really good when she is getting bigger as at present. She takes away the unknown, lightens the darkness, and broadens the horizon. Hopefully we will make St Helena before she becomes old and shriveled.
Meanwhile we await another front tonight but I am hopeful, with our good speed north today, that there will not be too much punch.
Our friends Marc and Catharine on their OVNI 43 (very like Ithaka) have just arrived in Montevideo after sailing from the Falklands a day or so before us. Their comment, "at 8PM it was 32degrees in the boat and there were people all over the beach - Nightmare". They have been in the south for 3 years - you get used to cold an penguins.
[speed] 6.5 knots
[heading] 045 true
[weather] Wind NNW 15 knots. 1.0m waves. Sky 50% cloud. Baro 1006.
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