I was accused of sounding grumpy yesterday... sorry! There, does the exclamation point help bring back my usual tone? What can I say, I had had a hard watch. Last night's wasn't much better, but I am feeling more philosophical about it all today. More squalls, wind shifts, and some rain mixed in. But things have settled down a bit. The wind steadied down in the northeast, so we're heading a bit south of east now. Making better progress against our destination than we have for a while. It's beating to weather (again), but I guess that was the passage to expect. The wind is forecast to back well north later today and tomorrow, so we should do even better, and maybe even get back some northing. I am still a bit worried about coming in too far to the south, but if that happens, it will happen. The passagemaker's bible is a book by Jimmy Cornell, 'World Cruising Routes'. He suggests not turning east until about latitude 40, but finishes it by saying it all depends on the big high. Which has been hard to predict lately, so we're going to have to play it by ear. As we have been doing.