Bugger, just lost a fish. Not sure what but it lives to swim another day. And at last engine off for the day, ears ringing. Noisy blimmin thing. And so we shall drift at about 1.5kn for the night, no doubt to turn on the engine again tomorrow. Think I´ll stop motoring when the fuel gets down to 25cm. Then it´s down to the gods of wind. 36cm at the moment down from 41cm this morning. So that´s about another 120 miles motoring, or 2 degrees latitude which would take us up to 33deg N. Will that be enough to find some wind? Hope so. It must be there somewhere. Weatherfax hour soon. See what they´ve got to say about the possible future.
20th June. Day 14. 06.30 Hmm. Wefax say more of the same. Massive high pressure system right over Atlantic. What can a poor skipper do. Motor a bit further north then wait it out I suppose. Can´t stay like that forever....... can it??
This link might work to today's weatherfax. Can´t remember what area it is though. http://weather.noaa.gov/pub/fax/PJEA11.TIF
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