Only 250 Seemeilen haben wir vor uns 🙂 , then we are finally here. It's hard to believe, that we really over 2700 Seemeilen gesegelt sind 🙂 Die letzten Tage haben sich ziemlich in die Länge gezogen. Mostly the sun is shining and the day it is so warm, that it is better crumbles below deck. There is even hot, but you will at least not grilled by the sun. Our Bimini, the sun cover outside, Although there to donate honestly tried shadow, But the three of us together, it is not enough most.
Happily, however, the refrigerator has become so far emptied, that the drinks, find place in it. A place in the daily routine, the afternoon dose ingested sugar in cola form :-), but the anticipation of the investors beer in Saint Lucia rises by the hour.
Our autopilot, the Hydra, makes a very excellent job. For some time we walk directly towards Saint Lucia, while other boats trying desperately, to work its way in zigzag course from the wind crossing in this direction. The wind usually comes from directly behind. This is a course, with the many ships have major problems. But our CESARINA was designed for such courses and can not be dissuaded from cross seas because of their hull shape with its long keel off course :-). We therefore we can with the Hydra rates up to 175 ° control of the wind without risking, risking a dangerous jibe. This works so fantastic, Dietmar that can not even manage so well by hand. Und das will schon was heißen 🙂 So kann er dann besser ein gutes Buch lesen, which indeed in the long run makes even more fun.
On the Plotter today is night already clearly visible, that we are approaching Saint Lucia. Three other sailors and even two freighter drifting around just in our immediate vicinity. Since the vigils are also significantly more entertaining, because there is to see but stars also once again something else. Although, of course, nothing to sneeze at a starry sky over the Atlantic. So many meteors as in the last two and a half weeks, I have not seen in my life. And without all the light, we actually always have in the densely populated areas, it still looks much nicer, leuchtender und klarer aus 🙂