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There were scattered storms during this trip, during which there were strong gusts. Once the rain died down, there was very little wind. We did more MOB drills, practiced picking up mooring balls, and did some docking practice at Second Star Sailing.

We checked out English Harbor before going out to do some MOB drills. There were decent swells during this trip. At the end of the night, we sailed onto the anchor.

Turned off SailTies by accident for a big portion of this trip. We practiced a lot of tacking throughout. Deirdre also practiced blown-on docking in Falmouth.

We left Deep Bay Bay late in the day when the sun way already starting to set. The primary goal of this trip was for Deirdre to practice navigating. Fiona steered for most of the sail. We tacked a few times and practiced two jibes. By the time we got into Jolly Harbor the sun had fully set and Fiona was steering in the dark.

This was my longest solo trip to date and in general was quite easy and straight forward. The west to east route is always considered more challenging but on this occasion it was better than the outward leg. I remained on starboard tack for the entire crossing. The first 4 days were tough as I was close hauled against the trade-winds and current but once I got to latitude 30 it started easing off a bit. Nothing broke on board and I received no injuries so in that respect was a perfect crossing. I got bored quite a lot, that was the only negative. I’m used to spending my time fixing things on these passages. PredictWind gave a 26 day passage in a best case scenario and to beat it by 8 days was pretty good. I think the main reasons for this was I was receiving daily weather routing from Stokey Woodall and the boat sailed way faster than I expected. Therefore the polar was wrong. On one particular day I hit 164 NM for the 24 hour period which is higher than hull speed. I guess I got some favourable currents giving a bit of free mileage. She happily cracked off 140-150 miles daily without trying. A bit depressing to get to Horta and find it completely full. I anchored for one night in the harbour and then set off for Ponta Delgado.

Vent Est 15 / 20 nœuds au vent de Redonda. Navigation travers/ grand largue . Passage au vent de St Kitts . Joli 3 m de fond . Beau temps. Moteur pour la dernière demi-heure pour atteindre Sandy Bay.