At last I'm south of the seemingly perpetual band of lows flowing across the Atlantic to the UK. Ah, the joy of high pressure. Warm sunshine. A broad reach with a northerly wind. Full main and big genoa. Albert can easily handle it, so all is quiet. Taonui slides and chuckles along making an easy 6.5 - 7 knots. Clothes drying in the cockpit. Hatches open. The pleasure of a wide ocean. And, at night a full moon and bright stars playing amongst the clouds.
Noon-to-noon was 115 miles, not bad seeing that I didn't turn south and get sailing until 16:00. Slowly I could add more sail as the SW wind shifted to the north and slowly subsided as I made southing. Glad to be out of all of that. 949 miles to go to Terceira.
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