Keep Keeping On. Up at day break to set the big spinnaker, after a slow night under jib alone. Whoosh and off we went, back up to knocking off the miles.

Talked Christine into doing breakfast again, Flap Jacks for all.

After a few hours, the wind piped up, and we really weren’t able to stay on course with the big spinnaker up, so it was time to take it down. Down it came without any issues other than a little crew confusion. So a quick crew meeting, so that everyone does a defined role and not everyone trying to do all the roles at the same time. One at the helm, manages the steering, one at the bow to manage the sock and sail, one at the tack line and one at the spinnaker sheet, and one at the spinnaker halyard, opps might be one short here..

Sailed along with normal sails, 1 reef in the main, as we had just had 24 knots of wind and full jib. After getting back on course the wind was only putting out 16 knots. Now we needed more sail. Frustrating, few minuets trying to get the best out of the sails, we had course, but slow speeds. 30 minutes later, we are raising the spinnaker again, this time we can keep course and all is good.

Beautiful day of sailing, and the little Honda generator replenished our batteries in 3 hrs, so it was nice quiet day with lots of water rushing under the keels.

We had bought some ‘long life’ bread in the Canaries, the morning we were leaving. Its some vacuum sealed stuff, looked normal when we got it, took a package out today and it looked like it had been through a decompression chamber. It however made some pretty good panini sandwiches for lunch. Might have to do that again soon.

Saw a sailboat today, they had white sails, off our starboard side, then they hoisted a red spinnaker for a few hours. We tried to call them by “red spinnaker, red spinnaker this is blue spinnaker” but no one answered. We were just going to ask, “Pardon me, do you have any Grey Poupon?”. They put the spinnaker away and headed more south than us, and just like that we are all alone out here, at least visually.

While cooking pizza for dinner, I took a look at the Ralph the salted pig leg, and it had started growing some stuff, so instead of waiting till we were sure we had enough food for the rest of the trip, executive decision to feed jaws some pork. It sunk like a rock! Pizza and some rum to celebrate under 400 miles to go.

Nice night, couple of clouds, bright moon, lots of stars, calm seas and spinnaker still up, and running on course. Very peaceful.

Currently estimating a Wednesday arrival

Course over ground: 265 Speed over ground: 8.1kn Total miles through water: 542 Miles to destination: 352 kn (as a crow).