Whales this afternoon with big breaches and now in the last hour maybe 50 or more blows in the area. Attached is a shot of one of the blows off in the distance. They were everywhere.
We are a now couple of hours east of cape sable motorsailing after the wind dropped from upper 20s to under 7 about an hour ago and backed significantly. There is a georgeous sunset out now and it relatively pleasant.
We’ve had a good run today much of it under spinnaker averaging around 9 kts. That’s a nice start to a passage that portends to be primarily upwind.
Captain Ron, the autopilot, hit the top speed of the summer so far at 15.6 kts. It is just wrong to have the top speed go to the pilot. Given the rest of the forecast, that looks largely upwind, that record will be tough to take down.
Hope your Friday evening is as nice as ours is out here.
