Tuesday.. Day 7 at sea. Well, the change in wind direction arrived. All day, the wind has been coming from exactly the direction we want to go. So, our course has been a compromise. The seas laid down a little for today, thank you very much.

Today for the most part was uneventful. Until the wind died. Wind died? Wassup? The forecast calls for rain (with no associated wind) followed by the wind just going very light. This means that we may have to drift around a bit until the trade winds re-establish themselves on Friday, or maybe we motor the rest of the way in. So, the wind died. Well maybe it was early, but was in the forecast. Disconnect the Wind Pilot, and start the engine. Off in the distance we see "the rain".

My those clouds are dark .soon we found out why. They were carrying a lot of rain, lightning, and wind. Wind a-plenty! For the next hour and a half we got to play with this high wind. Not a gale, but about 34 kts. When we weren't expecting it. So, as you can imagine, it was scramble to get sails down and reset to match the conditions. But wait, that's not so easy because the wind direction in this "thing" was very happily changing direction on us causing to send us in near circles, if we let it.

Eventually, didn't sail to the wind angle (constantly changing) but to a compass course that we had to monitor very closely so that we didn't have any unintentional gybes. It has all worked out, but I'm afraid "Your Argos" are knackered. I write this at midnight. Elisabeth is off watch sleeping a very deserved sleep. I'm awake, but too tired for any creative writing. It's all good. We're all fine. We have just had a very busy evening.