L'Eau Commotion Westabout

6:00pm Monday 11th December 2017 ( UTC-2 ) At any given time the speed on the GPS log hovers just under the six knot mark and if you go back four or six or twelve hours 5.8 keeps popping up. Indeed since this time last night that's the average and reflects exactly how the sailing feels. The breeze may rise and fall by a few knots and change direction by a few degrees but basically it's as steady as you'd wish. The other good news is that by peeking into the future a good run down to the region off Uruguay is on the cards. Cornell's Wind Atlas of the World shows that these conditions are to be expected but it's still nice to have dodged the little lulls that appear here and there. Checked the bilges and water tanks which are normal and there is no need to operate the manual desalinator just yet. I'll wait until it's just a little cooler for my calisthenics, although last night I did pull up the doonah over my knees for a little while.