We are now into our third day on passage. By noon, after 72 hours, we will have covered almost 500 nautical miles of the 1,700 nm distance to St Helena. We have been moving at great speeds for Maggie. Winds have been mostly in the mid twenty knots from the south. Lots of rocking and rolling to get used to again. Guide books say the weather is influenced by the systems off the tip of South Africa for the first several days. Then the prevailing south easterlies set in for the balance of the trip.
Maggie and Tahawus are heading straight to St Helena as a first stop. On Verra is continuing non stop to Grenada, a 6,000 nm trip! They expect it will take them six weeks. No Regrets is sailing along the coast for a stop at Walvis Bay, Namibia first. We'd love to see the desert and the animals there, but maybe it will have to be by airplane! There is often fog along the coast, coastal low pressure systems, and more shipping traffic. We all keep in touch on SSB radio at 9:00am and 7:00pm. We also send our positions twice daily to the Blue Planet Odyssey headquarters where they are posted n their website. I'm anxious to hear this morning if anyone contacted the US about the election results!
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