We now have 775 miles left to Antigua and have made good 1150 miles in 6 days. That's just shy of the mythical 200 mile/day average and we could have easily added 50 miles here and there, but as usual we fine it more comfortable and relaxing to back off just a little.

The weather has been sort of strange. We have definitely had strong NE trade winds but not the cumulus clouds we usually associate with the trades. Instead we have had a pretty constant stormy looking cloud cover. I am not sure what is causing that. As usual the grib winds (direction & strength) have not been very accurate within 15 degrees of the equator. The model primarily uses pressure gradients and wave heights to calculate winds and within 15 degrees of the equator there are only very small pressure gradients here and the wave heights are as good an indicator of wind strengths as elsewhere. Fortunately the weather is not that complex, at least out of hurricane season.