The high southwest of the UK has seen fit to become elongated and the centre of pressure has moved to the NE of Taonui. The wind followed suit and progressively veered from yesterday's north to the east and now southeast giving a lovely broad reach in 12-14 knots of wind over seas that are becoming smoother. Noon-to-noon run was 137 miles which is her normal run in these conditions. All is peaceful. Albert quietly does his job and I get to spend plenty of reading, sleeping and eating. Haven't seen a ship in past thirty-six hours, but was woken this morning by the radar squawking about a "underwater work platform" that was 12 miles away. The search for oil goes expensively on!
The barometer is stable and the weather fax shows the sausage of high extending all the way to the Azores. If I can just stay in the SW quadrant (can a sausage have a quadrant) these winds could last for days. 812 miles to go.
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