The trade winds remain fickle. In the last 24 hours, wind speeds have ranged from less than one knot to a peak of 30 knots and have come from almost every direction. The MooCrew have been working very hard trimming, tweaking and changing sails in order to keep the boat moving toward St. Lucia without [...]
After ten days of clawing our way southward, we’ve finally found the trade winds. We’ve given up on trying to better Moonshadow’s last ARC Rally time of just under 14 days and now are just shooting to beat Christopher Columbus’ best time of 21 days for the trans-Atlantic passage. Most of yesterday and last night [...]
Every time we think about being nine days out from Las Palmas and yet to reach the half way point, we think about the poor buggers a few hundred miles north who are pounding into big seas and trying to make way into 20-30 knot winds.
Way down here, well to the south of the great [...]
We have been blessed/cursed with light winds on this passage-until yesterday afternoon. As we approached a slow moving front, the winds gradually increased to the 14-16 knot range from the south-southwest. Just the direction we wanted to be heading. We were on a tight reach throughout the evening, trying to hold on to every inch [...]
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