The weather has started to get warmer and we are now spending the days in just shorts / swim wear! The wind was good yesterday morning, but several days of no engine meant the batteries were getting low so we started the engine at 2:30pm - we turned it off at 6:00pm and 10 mins later the wind died! Typical, we could have used the diesel to charge the batteries and motor through the light winds - such is life!
The wind stayed light all night and we mooched along at 4 knots or less. This morning it was very very hot and extremely light winds. We put the cruising chute up at 10:30am and poled it out like a spinnaker - it seems to have kept the boat speed above 3 knots which is good.
Despite the light winds we still managed a 108 mile run for day 6.
Total distance now run 643 miles (out of circa 2,800!)
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