We've been at sea four days and are now about 400 miles off the Irish coast, just SW of Rockall. We haven't seen a ship, or, heard a voice on the VHF for two days now. Progress has been reasonable given that only yesterday had a decent sailing wind. After a couple of days sunning ourselves on deck, the weather has changed to what you would expect for the North Atlantic: grey, rainy, cloudy, squally and cool. The decent wind yesterday enabled us to put Gjoa through her paces and she rose to the occasion proving to be a good sailor. We had a bit of a rough ride last night as the seas were churned up along with 20 knots of wind, but, today the seas have calmed and the wind has dropped a bit. Forecast is looking ok for the next few days, but, there is a nasty low looming ahead that will be difficult to avoid. We'll wait for a couple of days to get a more accurate forecast. It may then require evasive action to avoid, or, at least reduce the impact of the hit.
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Day5 25/6/2014 12:00 53°22.3'N 018°46.9'W
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