A funny old day ...
It started off in the same vein as the last couple with good SE winds and good progress being made. Then around noon we started to lose the wind and it shifted further into the south. We persevered and sailed on at a slower rate until around 6pm when the wind died altogether as we approached a huge bank of black cloud. Rain, lightening and head winds treated us for 5 hours while we motored through the cloud. Thereafter we would get SE winds and sail for 2 hours then the wind would die and we would motor for 2 hours, before it once again returned, then left again, then returned! Very odd. We believe it may be the ITCZ (Inter-tropical Convergence Zone) which moves around and is where the cold southern ocean winds and currents meet the warm equatorial ones causing chaos! Hopefully we are through the worst of it now!
Also, we had a food throwing day - we bought 3 packs of vacuum packed sausages in Panama which we tried and didn't like, so 2 of them went over the side. We then found a box of nuts from the Canaries which had gone soft so they went over the side, swiftly followed by the baking flour we bought in Panama which turned out to have weevils in when we opened it!!
24 Hour Run: 121 n/m
Distance to Run: 2,118 n/m
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