Day 11 – 04.02.26

This morning we calculated that we had done 150Nm in a day, which is not bad at all and means we were sailing at an average of 6,2 kts. Winds were good the whole day and we saw a MSC cargo ship, the first one since we’ve left Valdivia bank. It looked like it was going to St Island but when we checked him out on the AIS we read he was going to New York…

Right now we are heading slightly off track because of the wind direction coming from the E but we will gybe before sunset today. Hopefully this will be the right angle to go straight to the island, gybing takes about 25’ because of the pole that needs to be removed from the Oxley or the genoa, main preventer removed, then we gybe slowly to have the boom swing to the other direction, replace the preventer and then pole out the Oxley/or the genoa to the other side. This allows us to have sails going opposite directions and have as much wind blow into them.

Tonight JB is making pasta alla putanesca consisting of lots of garlic, lots of olives, anchovies, capers and tomato sauce, this time we’re adding aubergine (that needed to be eaten) -a little twist to the original recipe.