Position: 12°05.974N/55°55.230W, Tuesday Dec. 6th, 15:15 UTC
The rain didn't last too long, the weird clouds were still there for some time but disappeared too eventually. With the rain also the wind left us... it went down to 4 kts, too little for sailing. Two days ago we started the engine to charge the batteries and put it in forward instead of neutral and it still is..
So we're motoring for two days now and that's boring.... We all read, sleep and read some more ….
We're okay on fuel but I don't think we can motor the remaining 300nm.
The grib file I downloaded looks promising for Wednesday though, so hopefully later today or tonight we can sail again. That would be good for our speed too. Right now we're doing no more then 5 kts while sailing our average was over 7 kts!
With no wind it's getting hotter too... a lot. It's now 37°C and since yesterday we have the bimini up.
Otherwise you couldn't be in the cockpit, in the sun it's way too hot!
When the sun sets though it's a spectacular sight. Normally the sky turns red in the West but last two nights, the sky turned red not only in the West but also in the South and even in the East! I've never seen that before. Later when the moon came up, there was this halo, not close around the moon but amazing far from the moon itself. A white circle like a huge wheel with the moon in the middle. Then when the moon set, the sky turned red like a sunset. I've never seen that before either :-)
Anyway, I reckon in two days or so we can drop the anchor.. However, I want to get in with daylight so it might be Friday when we get to Scarborough after all. Then it will be 19 days since we left La Palma, 19 great days :-)
