07deg 21.690N 38deg 53.634W

1563 Nautical Miles from Nowhere (Las Palmas to be exact).

Just a quick one while I am trying to get weather down. The passage is starting to speed up now as winds move their way to 26 knots and more squall activity is apparent with gust nudging 30knots and waves up to about 3 meters. All in all not bad compared with Biscay and we are now looking at a 19 day crossing.

Supplies are holding up well with fruit and vegies starting to run out or go off so over the next couple of days we will start to eat tinned vegies to go with the meat that we have frozen for the trip. Beer is holding out well and I don´t think there is any chance of that running out - the Supersol Cerveza from Gran Canaria at €0.18 a can should see us well into Barbados, but Bernie´s Heinekin will run out tonight

As for the sailing the boat is handling all that is being tossed (nothing has been thrown at her yet) with much aplomb and the autopilot is running a dream. We are sailing pretty much on one tack in a goose wing configuration (main out one side, genoa out the other)with minimal need to adjust the sails with the exception of nightly reefing (making the sail smaller) to reduce speed and increase comfort for the sleep. With the rising sea however, I find myself not sleeping on other´s shifts as I wonder what is happening up top and then some would accuse me of sleeping on my own shift.......

Photo opportunities are limited and the weather is anything but tropical (with the exception of the squalls) with the only other living things we have seen in the last 3 days have been the flying fish and half of them go belly up on the foredeck as they misjudge their flight path.

Anyway that´s about it from us today - hope all is well

Karen and Matt