ARC Day 5: At Last, the wind has come at last

Continuing from yesterdays tragic events with the Parasail, we continued to head south, not sure if we are stopping in at Cape Verde or not. Then suddenly the news we were waiting for came in from ARC HQ:

"- .... . .-. . / .. ... / .- / ... .- .. .-.. -- .- -.- . .-. / .. -. / -.-. .- .--. . / ...- . .-. -.. . --..-- / .-- . .-.. .-.. / ... --- .-. - / --- ..-."

What you cannot read morse code, what kind of a sailor are you! Translation, “There is a sailmaker in Cape Verde—well, sort of.”. The full message added, "He is a canvas maker rather than a sailmaker". Our sail requires a surgeon, not a GP! We quickly decided to not go to Cape Verde!

So we continued south and finally found the promised trade winds and turned right on a direct course for St Lucia. The sea state continues to be very favourable and the winds are between 13 and 18 knots. This is much better than the conditions that we had in the Med, Cheryl, you could easily have done this.

Man at sea, waiting for the laundry to dry (I told you sailing is exciting):

We had Cheryl's Thai Curry for dinner and that was appreciated by the crew.

Song of the day "At Last" by Etta James:

First recorded in 1941 by Glen Millar and Orchestra, it was later immortalized by Etta James in 1960, and is another favourite of mine.

I really felt it when "At Last" the winds came. We have run our engines for a total of 45 hours in 120 hours.