We finally found some real wind and it looks as though it will stay with us until the end. We have been running dead downwind all day today. The average swell height has increased to about 2.25 meters (according to the weather man, not my estimate). So the larger waves are about 3 meters high which pick up our stern and rush us forward; we occasionally surf down these waves and see momentary speeds of 11-12knots. Our average speed for the day so far is 7.9knots and as the wind is expected to increase some yet, I suspect we will have an average speed over 8 knots for the day.
ETA is sometime Sunday afternoon. Hopefully we'll arrive before sundown as we are not allowed to enter port when customs is not opened; if that happens we will need to sit offshore until the next morning. None of us would welcome that but "it's gonna be what it's gonna be".
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