Today was down to the final tasks. The Big Dutch men came aboard and everyone moved to their allocated bunks. The bottom of the boat was scrubbed smooth by Andy , our Watch Leader and Jerome the French Consultant.
All week the talk has been that this ARC will have light winds and maybe no wind for a couple of days. But when Christian came back he told us the latest forecast was for quite strong winds , possibly South Westerly, which is unusual and means that at least part of the race we will be beating up wind. As the rhum line to St Lucia from Las Plmas is almost directly South West. This will be uncomfortable!
There is a large High just south of the rhum line and we need it to move North to give us the long smooth clockwise trades that will drive us to St Lucia from astern
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