Janice & Mick on Zoa

20190213 Bay of Bengal Lat 07 Deg 00.567'N Lon 088 Deg 06.114'E Cog 272 T, Sog 7.2 Knots. Still heading for the southern end of Sri Lanka.

Well more of the same really, it was a bit uncomfortable with the rolling until about midnight last night, then the wind picked up, the boat settled down and started charging, we have been doing over 7 knots ever since, over 8 at times, but there is current helping. The wind has started to die a bit now and the waves are starting to push us around a bit more. The wind is forecast to drop over the next few days, hopefully these waves will drop off with it. I will have to do some motoring by the look of it, but hopefully not too much, I still have a fair bit of fuel, but I have had to run the engine every day to charge the batteries, the Autopilot is working hard, and going dead down wind the wind generator and solar are not keeping up. There are quite a few clouds behind me heading this way, but they don't look too nasty just yet, One caught up with me last night, but it was mainly rain and a little extra wind. So all good here, over ½ way to Sri Lanka, But the Maldives are still a fair way away, I'm fine been eating well, could do with a shave, but that's about it .