Day 12 Cape Verde to Grenada (Rubbish)
Not as much progress as we wanted as the wind direction forced us low of our course. Now back on course and hopefully back direct progress towards the finish. ONE amazing fact we have 1 rubbish bag. All plastic is cut up and put in bottles and the organic...
Day 11 Cape Verde to Grenada (Sextant)
Wind moved to east and blowing up which means we are getting some good distance to Grenada. Should site land in next few days. Been keeping a parallel log by Sextant and currently only 15nm out from true position. Great news as this will enable us to get a fix...
Day 10 Cape Verde to Grenada (Dolphins)
After days (weeks) of not seeing dolphins we had a lot around us last night. The perfect setting for sundowner beer! They stayed with us for about 20min and included mother with young it was perfect. Wind and sea is confused with gusts well into the 35Kt...
Day 9 Cape Verde to Grenada (Pub night)
It's all parties on board Onyva. Last night was pub night and how better to have a pub night than a good game of darts. In this case Velcro darts. While the scores were good my past crept up on me and I won with Jenna second.
Day 8 Cape Verde to Grenada (Party)
To celebrate our half way position we had to have a half way party. Champaign, beer and nibbles. Also a good run for the day at 186nm. The log SOG average was 8.3kts but we did need to availed an abandoned fishing boat last night so went out of our way for...
Day 7 Cape Verde to Grenada (Half Way)
Half way, 1091nm Done and 1091nm ToGo. Wind dropped during night so average for day also slow and covering 163nm in 24hrs. Fishing is becoming difficult due to so much weed. Apparently it's called Sycasoum(?). Pub night last night so will post picture...