we finally got to near the north wpt at night. It felt great to get going and moving a bit faster in a warm current. But that was very short lived as the SE wind picked up very strong and cancelled out the benefit from the current! After a few hours of very little gain towards east, we found our rhythm and angle of attack! All of this is great experience for us.
We did not know we were followed by a yacht (“Amelia P”) sailing from Halifax to Scotland, until we saw them and identified them on our AIS. It’s great to see a boat and human beings (the last one was about 10 days ago)! We radioed the “Amelia P”. The crew was very kind and offered us anything. As we are on this self-supported independent crossing, we keep that way.
Finally after we exchanged the email addresses, they pulled the sails up and quickly headed east towards Scotland. And, we are back on our routines. This feels like the sun is out!!! It’s been 9 days no sun!
