The traditional routing for a trade wind passage like this one is simple: “Head south until the butter melts, and then turn right”.
Our route has been a bit different – the trades extended abnormally far north for this time of year, and we’ve been able to mostly sail the rhumb line after staying a bit north at the start in order to evade a small low pressure system.
But we’ve now made it far enough south that the butter is actually melting. That makes for slightly messy and saggy icing on Angie’s Halfway Cake, but it doesn’t make it any less delicious!
After finishing our pieces of celebration halfway cake in the cockpit, Angie returned to the galley to find the buttercream frosting melting and the cake layers starting to slide around. Yikes! Thankfully, after 10 days at sea, there is plenty of space in the fridge.
All’s well aboard.
Day Ten
154nm
19 03.7N 43 38.5W
