Wednesday morning
03 August 2022 | Sea area Sole
Ian Sales
Well on Mon/Tues we managed to sail for over 24 hours before the wind died off and it was motor sailing again. Its still motor sailing but we have altered our course slightly in view of the weather forecasts, and we are now aiming at a point 100 miles west of Lands End.
Then hopefully we can sail in on the 50 degree latitude line and take advantage of Northerly winds, which unfortunately turn North easterly as we pass the tip of the UK. It all depends on when the winds change as the forecasts cannot be too specific on timing.
We have sufficient fuel for this and hope to arrive at the 50 N and 10E waypoint about Midday tomorrow.
We have had one sunny day but its mainly been overcast and yesterday quite misty. We had one ship on a direct course coming towards us yesterday, we called him up on the radio and he moved over a few degrees, but he passed just over a mile away and we could just make out his
shadow through the murk. Thank goodness for AIS and radar. When I started this lark we had neither, nor GPS and low visibility in areas with shipping was frightening. You could hear engines and had to wait and see who appeared out of the mist.
However its sunny today and still nothing much around. I f we can keep going through the NE winds at the end of the week we should be in Sat/Sunday, we shall see.