This post, of yesterday, wasn’t published for an unknown reason. For completeness of the account of our adventure I am re-posting it now:

Yesterday was extremely hot, but a nice day to sail. As we’re not fishing anymore there’s not too much to tell. Maybe just the dive of seagulls (I believe) for fish, which is spectacular but I couldn’t get it into a photo. I thought of fishing to have fresh fish for when we arrive, but as we decided to give Alina a break from cooking for a few days and eat out, I am afraid that the fish will sit in the fridge.
The night started nicely sailing on flat seas quite fast…in a slightly wrong direction. The winds were again strait from behind so we had to deviate from our course. Towards the end of my watch the winds started to pick up but, not too much, just enough to need a reef in the mainsail (reducing the mainsail by about one third). As Huw is a terribly difficult to wake up, I started doing these manoeuvrings myself at night.
On Huw’s watch the boat started to rock and roll in all directions but I managed to sleep OK. Alina woke me up, on her and Paul’s watch as the radar showed we were surrounded by squalls. We furled (packed) the whole headsail and sailed like this for a while. The wind continued shifting so our course was almost straight south (when we needed to go west) so we went on he other side of the wind where the course was just 15 degrees above our straight line to destination.
Despite all temptation I didn’t start the engine as i just feels bad when we can sail reasonably fast (even if in the not so right direction).
It seems we might arrive in the port at night and this will be probably our next challenge as we need to make our way around patches of shallow water, marked here and there by some posts which only a few of them are lit. The moon is still bright and shiny and quite up in the sky after 10 pm so this might help.
The morning looks good, a few clouds in the sky so maybe it’s not gonna be so hot as yesterday and announces another nice sailing day.

This is Seven Seas Adventure, dreaming of cold wine, pina-coladas and standing by! Over!