Saturday, January 28, 2017

breezy

Our wind has remained with us through to morning; currently blowing 20-25knots. The seas are also still the same at 2.5-3 meters. We saw our highest surfing speed yet just a bit ago of over 17 knots.
As of 8am (noon UTC) we have 188NM to go. That's the same distance we covered in the last 24 hours as our average speed was 8.4knots so our ETA has moved up to sometime before noon local time tomorrow (conservatively).
As I was (slowly) writing this, I noticed that since we reset our average speed for the day about a half hour ago, our new average speed is 9.7 knots. We're flying!
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  1. peterprestonJanuary 28, 2017 at 5:37 AM

    Is it the case with Barbados as with St.Lucia where boats tend to experience a falling off wind as they near the islands. Noon might slip to sunset so don't be afraid of firing up those engines.

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  2. VirginTransAtlantic (Greg)January 30, 2017 at 1:50 PM

    No, we didn't experience any wind falloff as we were coming from windward and Barbados is quite flat compared to almost all the other Caribbean islands. No mountainous peaks here.

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