Day 3 Charleston to Antigua
Noon Position 26deg 11N 68deg 51W
Course – 141 Degrees Speed – 12 Knots Day’s Run – 259 Miles
Weather – Partly cloudy with 7′ (2m) swells from E
Wind – 13 knots from ENE
No luck with fishing yesterday and today we are going too fast to keep the lures in the water. The light winds continued until just before sunrise today. We have now left the center of the big high pressure system we have been in since leaving Charleston and are now heading south in to the trade winds. The wind is still too close on the nose to sail so we are motor sailing with full main and the staysail. Hopefully that will change as the day goes on and we may be able to turn the engine off.
JC