Fired up the main engine at midday after winds pooped out all together. Looks like a couple days more at 7+ knots to steam out of these doldrums. Lots of rain last night and today. If we had an extra week or two we could sail out of these doldrums. Glad we have a good and big main engine.
Date: April 15, 2019
From: St Helena Island, South Atlantic Ocean
Towards: Grenada, West Indies
Noon position: 03-42S / 034-46W
Course and speed: WxN x 1/2 N, or 287 degrees at 7.3 knots
Wind force and direction: winds all over the place and light
Seas/swell: moderate seas of 1+ metre from the east and SE. Pretty smooth
Barometer: 1015 steady
Sky: overcast all day – stationary rain squalls we motor through – winds fanning out underneath them
Water temperature: 28.2C – 83F
Distance made good in 24 hours: 92 nautical miles
Passage log: 1,903 nautical miles
Voyage log: 24,021 nautical miles
Distance to next port: 1,834 nautical miles as the shark swims