Today was another glorious sunny day, without a cloud in the sky, but, unfortunately, absolutely no wind at all. That meant we had to motor, but, due to a horrendous cross current of more than 2 Kts at times, which had Paw Paw “crabbing” across the water, we had to motor on both engines to keep our SOG (Speed Over Ground) above 5.5 Kts. It was definitely a very tedious and slow day.

The good news is that we now have about 3 more days to go before we’ll be able to take a break from all the continuous sailing for at least a week or so, top up on provisions, especially fresh produce, as well as top up on diesel.

Besides the amazing “fireball”sunset this evening, as the full moon rose in the east, we also saw a huge pod of very large dolphins to our port side, many coming straight out of the water at times, to the point that Roy initially thought they were sailfish; quite spectacular!