Greg here. I hope all our family and friends back in the US are enjoying a wonderful and happy Thanksgiving weekend. While we are all missing the smell of pumpkin pie and a basting turkey it's the time with our loved ones that we miss the most. We have many great holiday memories to hold us over this season. It will be great to be a part of the festivities again next year. But I have to admit, I will have a big smile on my face when thinking about Thanksgiving 2015. The most unique Thanksgiving Day I have ever had. I hope most of you are settling in for today's college football games with left over dressing, sweet potatoes and cranberry sauce. Go Gators! and best of luck to the Maize and Blue as they try to dethrone Urban Meyer and company. The last 24 hours have largely been focused on our collective excitement about reaching the end of our passage. We're all deep in meditation about what toppings to put on our vanilla ice cream or if in fact we should plan on chocolate. Dave and I are thinking vanilla�...�...and chocolate! After that it's the age old conundrum of Margarita or Pina Colada? These are the types of deep philosophical discussions from a crew that will have spent 24 straight days at sea. Socrates had nothing on us! It's been a long journey but time has really flown by. Our shaky autopilot pin continues to hold which is great news. None of us are interested in hand-steering Leu Cat all the way to Grenada. I like our chances. For most of the day we sailed along in calm winds but we had a big 3-4 meter swell that was hitting us on our starboard aft side. The swells created the most rockin' and rollin' we have experienced on this passage. I wobbled around like a drunken sailor for several hours but we were no worse for the wear when all was said and done. The swells were accompanied by light squalls that moved past us with only slight increases in wind and some light rain. Near the end of the day however, we got our first moderate squall. The winds maxed out at about 35 knots true and Leu Cat was treated to a pretty good rain bath from the passing clouds. It lasted for about 30 minutes. Since we are sailing with double reefed main and head sails we were in perfect configuration to meet the small tempest. It was a great lesson for Mary and I as this was the heaviest weather we have encountered so far on our trip. Since last night we have been making great time as our speed as averaged over 7 knots. If that holds we should make landfall in Grenada on Monday late afternoon. If we slow down a bit, it will force us to wait until Tuesday morning as we don't want to make an approach into an unfamiliar port during night hours. We should be passing by Tobago Island tomorrow night where we will turn north and start our 75 mile sail to Grenada and the finish line. Mary and I will celebrate our first oceanic passage while Dave and Mary Margaret will be "popping the cork" in celebration of their circumnavigation. We'll be all smiles on Leu Cat! "The bad news is time flies. The good news is you're the pilot." ~ Michael Althsuler

As of noon today, the end of Day 21 of our passage to Grenada, our position is 9 17.8'N: 56 43.5'W, our course is 303 degrees True, our speed is 7.0 knots with 11 knots of apparent wind from the E. The seas are mild, running 1 to 2 meters from the E. We made 172 nm today, averaging 7.2 knots. We have sailed 2846 nm with a daily speed average of 5.7 knots. We have about 340 nm to go to reach Prickly Bay, Grenada.