Current position is: 23 20 75S and 163 46 30E
Now, if you were to plot that on a chart, you'd see that we've hardly covered any ground whatsoever. This is starting to look like an all-time record for the slowest day yet.
When we looked at the weather, it showed light winds for the foreseeable future. What it didn't say was that there would be NO winds. Usually one can add about 5 knots onto the predicted wind strength but not this time. On the positive side, it's gorgeous and sunny but we just ain't movin' on.
Today was a day for trying every single sail configuration we could think of. First the spinnaker, that just wrapped around the forestay and we then spent half an hour trying to untangle it, not a solution. Then, we tried staysail and pole-out jenny, nope, just flogged. Main and jenny, no. Staysail and main, no. If the paddles for the dinghy had been a bit longer, we might have tried those. In the end, one just has to give up and wallow but, as I said, it's been nice, warm and sunny.
By late afternoon, Pete came on the radio. He'd been motoring for hours so had caught up to us. We could just barely see his sail glowing with the setting sun way off on the horizon. However, we'll probably lose him again by morning.
At the rate we're going, we'll be lucky to get there by Christmas and here we thought we'd be averaging about 6 to 6 1/2 knots to get there this coming Monday or Tuesday. I guess that was wishful thinking but, we still live in hopes that someone turns the fan on for the rest of the trip.
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