Day 1 Uruguay to Salvador, Brazil
Noon Position 32 deg 13S 51deg 16W
Course – 035 Degrees Speed – 12.2 Knots Day’s Run – 251 Miles in the 1st 21 hours
Weather – Partly cloudy with 10′ (3m) swells from SE
Wind – 19 knots from SE
Today’s News
Yesterday afternoon was rainy and pretty bumpy. By the evening the wind had settled a bit and the rain squalls cleared. We managed to keep good speed though the night with the help of 0.5-1 knot of current with us. This morning the current has lessened to under 0.5 knots and we are expecting it to disappear completely within the next 24 hours and then we will be facing a 1 knot current from the north for the rest of our trip up the coast of Brazil.
The sun has come out this morning, the seas flattened a bit and we have just put up the main with 2 reefs in it to go with the genoa and mizzen we have been using through the night. It is pretty comfortable now and we are knocking off the miles.
JC