Yes the weather window for the next two days was the best we had witnessed for the last month for a good, safe passage from Sardinia to Minorca. Our passage plan was for a 44 hour journey but what was to unfold was just a little quicker than what we planned for.
The first 3 hours we trundled along at 5 to 6 knots and as forecast the wind picked up along with our boat speed we were doing over 9 knots for just over 5 hours and just to be different we were running with the wind and had a nice following sea. As the evening approached and well into the night the wind eased and our speed fell below 8 knots, at 2200 as forecast the wind picked up to around 30 knots, with a couple of gusts at well over 40, even with reduced sails we were running at around 11 knots with a new top speed of 14.2. The conditions eased after about 4 hours of very fast sailing but we still managed just over 103 nautical miles in the first 12 hours. We still did not manage to break the 200 nautical mile barrier in 24 hours.
All up we sailed the entire distance apart from the short motor out of the anchorage in Sardinia and the very short motor into what turned out to be a very exposed bay in Minorca.
With only one fishing line out we still managed to lose two more tuna and land one very nice albacore.
We are now anchored in the beautiful Fornells on Minorca.
Life is still on the move on Annecam