July 27th, position 43°29.7826N; 24°27.608W

Since we tagged the wind didn't  change much so we're still pointing some North of East .
According to the latest gribfiles we'll find some Westerly winds more North the plan is to tag again tomorrow. We'll probably have to motorsail through the center of the high but then we'll find the Westerlies hopefully.
Anyway, this trip is more a challenge not only in finding the best course and winds. Also in repairing all kind of little things. Yesterday the inverter stopped working... that could in fact not be the case since I bought that new in Horta. And, it wasn't. It turned out to be a short circuit... but where? All 220V outlets were fine and checking the cables on the breaker box didn't lead to anything. Luckily I also got a new small unit before I left last year so I can at least charge my laptop.

Then last night Marc noticed that the port lower spreader was wiggling...
hmm,...it's not supposed to do that. We decided to go up the mast next day to check the fittings.
The early this morning while furling out the gennoa a bit more, the halliard broke....
We got it down okay and furled out the staysail. I had to go up the mast anyway …

At around 8 it was a smooth-ish to climb up the mast. The halliard was broken and had fallen down the mast... end of the halliard. No big deal though, we can use the uphaul which we did.
The fitting of the spreader was okay. But two of the rivets to keep it in place were gone.
God thing I have all the stuff and tools to fix it but working half way up the mast mid Atlantic is not   particularly my most favorite thing to do.

But, in the mean time the wind had backed a bit and we're steering a much better course and the weather is real nice and sunny :-)