Well to say we were a little nervous about crossing the equator was an understatement, both of us didn't want to speak too much of it. The last time at 3am in Maldives saw us with our genoa torn to rags when the webbing on the head gave way in a squall and we couldn't furl it in. In fairness when we crossed the line we gave Neptune some pretty cheap (although tastey) rum, so this time we chilled a bottle of Italy's finest Prosseco Champagne for the occasion also at 3am. The weather was perfect, no squalls great sailing, gave him a good fair gulp, thought we had made amends but not long after our autopilot starts playing up. Call me superstitious but what the #^*%?! Everything had been just going too damn well I suppose ;)
So we are now snaking all over the place in light winds from slightly behind, not too bad an angle but with the strong current and not quite enough wind we aren't going exactly in a straight line and the more I mess around with the sails trying to make it better the worse it seems to get! We hand steered a few hours each and soon got sick of that so we are very grateful for the windvane and the breeze, we really have very little to complain about!!
Yesterday's Noon to Noon run was 183nm, today's 150nm
Position @ 1200 on 27/7 is And 545nm to Suriname
Sounds a bit freaky guys!!
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