Saint Helena To Jacare, Brazil.
Saturday 20 April. After having spend eight days on Saint Helena, we set sail yesterday at 07:40 and I plotted the course to be 271° T for Salvador, Brazil, a distance of 1.920 NM, which should take us two weeks to reach. The weather forecast is currently for 15-18 kn E-SE wind and two meters waves, as well as a slight west running current. So we set the Genoa to port with the spinnaker pole and fixed the mainsail with a preventer to starboard, as well as rigging the stay sail to starboard. This is my usual downwind sail configuration and gives generally comfortable sailing, as well as it give good speed. We have averaged 7.1 kn with a maximum speed of 11.1 kn during the last 23 hours. I expect we will cover a good 160 NM the first 24 hours, which will be fine. For this trip, I changed the watch system and my watches are now 06:00-09:00 and 18:00-21:00, which is more pleasant than the last time where I was on watches 03:00-06:00 and 15:00-18:00. The watches between midn...