Sea temp 29 degC, air temp 27degC. 23deg 35´ N 61deg 59´W.
My friends the Shearwaters have left me. Saw one at dawn then nothing. But
that´s OK, maybe they´ll come back, maybe not. Either way it´s fine. Just
the way it is. Nothing now but the boat, almost cloudless sky above and
empty dark blue sea below. Two things of note will happen today. 1. We will
officially leave the tropics at 23deg 26´N. Actually, that´s happened
already, we´re at 23deg 35´ north so have just passed the tropic of cancer.
This is as far north as the sun makes it in the northern summer on June 21st
before heading south again. The other thing has happen already as well, we
are north of the sun again. But only just and no more. At noon the
declination of the sun will be 23deg 05´north. Which means at local noon it
will almost directly overhead. Hot hot hot.
Wind has died a little more. Boat speed around 3Kn. Sea calm. The boat rolls
gently on a long low swell from the east. I´m used to the boat now so don´t
notice the motion but can see the rolling from movement of the shadows from
the (soon to be overhead )sun. Seems to be a long slight swell from
northeast as well. Hard to see but something is there from a far off wind.
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