Slowly north again.

20th June 2010. 18.21. Engine off before long, sunset not far off. All afternoon there has been not a cloud in sight. Pressure now 1024 after being up to 1025 mid afternoon. Tiny breeze from NW but at least the boat will steer herself now. No fish, but a few artic terns flying round the boat now and again, beautiful birds, dancing on the wind with big long white tails . Other than that not much to say, progress down to the whims of the gods of wind soon. Now at 33deg 23n so surely there must be a bit of breeze up here soon. When will be will be, I wonder. Next time I´ll buy more powdered milk, getting rather fond of fresh yoghurt. Been out for more than two weeks now. Seen only 3 or 4 ships, no other yachts or fishing boats. Just deep blue sea and blue sky. Not even half way yet. Little bit daunting, but only if you think about it. What shall i have for to eat tonight then, I´ll think about that instead. Likely to be something not involving fresh fish but containing rice.
22nd June 2010 07.00. 33deg 41n 60deg 35w. Air temp 26deg sea temp 24.2deg. Pressurre 1024mb.
Just poled out the foresail, running wing and wing now. That is main sail all the way out to starboard and the genoa out to port with a pole between the mast and the sail to stop it flapping about. Doing just under 3kt just the wrong side of north, 355deg. But just oh so quiet. Covered a world shattering 12 miles last night. But that´s 12 diesel free miles and better than going backwards. Might have a clean up today, tidy the chart table and maybe finally do something with those wires at the back of the vhf radio. Only been like that for a couple of years. Or maybe just read a book. Must be due a day off :) First some coffee and the last half of that orange with some yoghurt.
12.00 Wind went round to the west so just tacked the headsail, heading 018deg at 3kt. Run to noon was 63 miles. Slowly slowly again. Made what I thought was going to be roti but they turned out more like pitta bread. Easy though. Ready made mix bought in Trinidad, just add a little water, leave for 10 minutes, roll out and fry dry and hot. Next step will be make a big pot of chick pea curry and snacks will be easy from here on in. Chick peas soaking in readiness. Plenty indian spices from Trini in the cupboard as well. Yummy. Again not a cloud in the sky, pressure up one to 1025 so lucky to even have that tiny bit of breeze. Right, back to the book. Too hot to sit in cockpit, relaxing in cabin today.
23cm of fuel left, that´s enough for couple days motoring anyway if needed, I´ll keep that in reserve so no more engine apart from maybe an hour here or there to charge batteries. Solar panels seem to be keeping on top of that though not enough juice to have laptop running as well.