Canaries-bound
12 November 2009 | en route and 2am UTC
Wind light, seas calm and under motor
What a time! We've been out of touch because the very nice man in Safi, Morocco tried to help by washing the boat down and didn't realise the windows were open. Our new little laptop copped a dose of salt water and, after we washed it with fresh water, blow-dried it and left it for a day to really dry out, it seemed to be working til yesterday when it started doing weird things. That meant we were unable to connect to the satphone email, and no blog updates. Sam's computer's now up and running with all the software so we're back. Underway and expected to arrive in the Canary Islands tomorrow night. Last night was a roller coaster ride with winds of 30 knots gusting upwards and seas of about 3-4 metres. Fortunately all on the stern which Meander loves and things were reasonably comfortable...and we FLEW. Up to 8.5 knots of speed at times, which is fast for us, and we knocked over 142 nautical miles in 24 hours...we normally average about 100. Now that winds and seas have settled we're under motor again in very calm conditions which should remain til we arrive on Graciosa Island some time tomorrow night.