Our 14th day at sea. We'd hoped to be rounding Cape Farewell today. Despite sailing 669 miles in five days this week (two days were spent attached to the drogue) we've only been able to make 200 miles good towards our destination. We're now still about 450 miles east of Cape Farewell and not quite 1/2 way to Nuuk. It seems likely, with the feast/famine/foul winds we've been experiencing, that we could be out here another two weeks. We can see our planned cruising time in Greenland getting compressed, hope we're still able to do some. Yesterday, we were zooming along at 7 knots in 25 knots of wind (in the wrong direction). Today, we're totally flat calm again. We were also getting worried about Post-Tropical Arthur heading our way, but, it now looks like he won't be a threat and we may just touch his far edge. One small mercy.
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Week2 5/7/2014 12:00 54°18.6'N 031°32.5'W
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