Monday 23 November

Monday 23 November
In a few more hours we will end this leg of the journey; we will be in Cape Verde. It has been a straightforward passage. We set thwe sails when we left Tenerife, and for a week never changed them. The wind has been constantly at 135 degrees. When the wind strengthened we furled the genoa some, when the wind slackened we let out the genoa. lways the wind coming over my left shoulder.
Something that has impressed me is that this part of the Atlantic has almost no apparent life. Or rather that part of the Atlantic. In the past day the temperture has gotten noticeably warmer (no jacket tonignt, just two shirts) and I have seen, for the first time, birds, flying fish and sargasso. Some sort of transition has taken place, the change from the Canaries Current to the North Atlantic Equitorial Current, that will carry us across the Atlantic.
Tomorrow will be a new adventure. We are now in the sailing mode, not the visit-a-new-country mode. It may be only a one day stop, primarily for water.
Reef Early
Bill Doar
s/v Advent II