Crossed the equator at twenty past midnight and longitude 029° 31.4’W. PICTON CASTLE is back in the Northern Hemisphere for the fist time since Panama in November 2012.
Neptune’s Court is delayed due to squally weather, but expected any day now.
SHIPS WORK: Rainy day projects: cleaning breezeway and aloha deck overhead, organize hold, splice foretopmast staysail sheet pennant, spot paint black aft, work on building a main mast for SYDNEY, wire seizings for stirrups on fore royal yard.
BOUND FROM: James Bay, St Helena, South Atlantic Ocean
TOWARDS: Grenada, Windward Islands, Caribbean Sea
TIME ZONE: GMT -2
NOON POSITION: 00°18.5’N /030°15.9’W
DAYS RUN: 100 nm
PASSAGE DISTANCE RUN: 1,831 nm
DISTANCE REMAINING: 1,988 nm
COURSE AND SPEED: North West 1/2 West, Course made good 293° true, 4.7 knots
WIND: Wind Force 3-4, North East by East
WEATHER: Fair, 7/8 cloud cover, barometer 1015 millibars and steady, visibility good
SWELL HEIGHT & DIRECTION: East 1-2 m
SAILS SET: All square sails set, braced up on the starboard tack. All headsails except the flying jib, main topmast staysail, and mizzen topmast staysail also set.
Nice weather between squalls, Sam B on the helm