[password] rachel25
[position] 31 22.168n 027 42.505w
[status] On passage, Cabo Verde towards Europe.

The wind returned today, the small ridge we had been motoring in yesterday dissolving into the trade winds which then built up to 25 knots. 2 reefs and only half the yankee and much slamming into waves again. However it is not forecast to last for long and will moderate before morning and also swing east allowing us to bend around to the NNE we hope.
So a quiet day on Ithaka, Ana staring at the ceiling feeling slightly queezy, me in and out of the cockpit trying to get the boat to go to windward through usually, but sometimes over, the waves.
Bruce tells of a westerly wind not too far ahead blowing us the way we want to go. WE'll not think about this yet. It might be wishfull thinking.

[speed] 5.0 knots
[heading] 350 degrees true
[weather] Wind NE 22kts. 2.0m waves. Sky 30% cloud. Baro 1020
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