One day at a time. Weatherfax hints at maybe a tiny bit more wind tomorrow
but I´ll wait and see. For those new to weatherfax... It´s charts broadcast
over shortwave which you can pick up with a world band short wave receiver.
Plug the headphone output into the mic socket of the laptop and you can
receive (slowly) a variety of weather charts from different locations. New
Orleans is the favourite at the moment, good reception (at night anyway) and
does 24h, 48h and 72h forecasts showing expected wind speed and pressure
charts. All very useful if a little frustrating these past few days. But at
least now there is some wind, less than 5kn over the deck but enough to
slowly move the boat in roughly the right direction. And there might be the
same tomorrow or even a tiny bit more. Who knows. Though north isn´t
actually the way to the Azores, but you need to get up near 40degN to pick
up the stronger westerlies to zoom across. Hopefully. Got miles to go yet
and already been out for ages, crossing from Cape Verde to Brazil only took
16 days. I´ll be lucky to get much past Bermuda in that time at this rate.
But hey ho, what can you do. Eat some sushi and read and play with the
sextant. Still at least 10 miles out every time with the sextant, must be
the sun. It´s in the wrong place. Probably.
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