[password] Ridingmore
[position] 14 54.89N 55 46.47W
[weather] The wind has dropped and we're in slo-mo - 5-12 knots of easterly breeze for the last 2 days and its hot!
[speed] 4-8 knots
[status] Did I mention its getting hot? When we left the Cape Verdes last week the water temperature was 26, and the air temperature similar, quite pleasant, and requiring a light duvet at night. We're 300nm away from the Caribbean, and the sea water temp has gradually risen to 28.5. The air temp ranges between late twentys and the early thirties, with lots of humidity - its darn sticky!! We're all dying to get in the water for a quick swim (the bucket-baths on the back deck are ok, but nothing like an actual swim!), however the drive to get to the Caribbean and get this passage done is much, much, muuuuch higher at this stage!

We're zig zagging down wind all over the shop with the wind straight from the east, so we are covering much more distance in the light winds than we'd like to be, but such is the nature of downwind trade-wind sailing. Anyone have a spinnaker pole we could borrow??!

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