All good on board.  Slow night with winds easing.  Now SSE at 10kts and reaching with kite up going well.

Position at midday 26.24n 60.04w making 051 magnetic at 8.5 kts water temp 25.3  baro 1022.

Stuffed chicken last night all vg with bakes and salad. sausage sandwich for lunch.  Nic having good breakfast, 6 or so toast, glass chilled juice, bowl fruit, plenty of jam and honey, so I think he is AOK.

All good and pushing forward to NE to try and get N of the high into the SW flow

 Thursday night - slow going tonight at 6-7 kts full main and genoa…going well though.

A wet departure from Martinique but they are making good progress.  200 miles yesterday and today they have given me their GPS position at 1330 GMT.  Click here to see the map.

Going well -194nm today and much more comfortable.  Sun out so drying out well.  Fixed the heater chimney and just finished the aerial, so hope that works…looks good anyway.

midday wed 23.21n 60.54w 1021 baro 25.5 water temp, making 020 magnetic at 8.5kts. 12-14kts wind so all good.

Busy day mending but looks like we are ahead of the game so all good.

All well on board.  Quite a busy night last night (mon) windy and rough, but very much better than the previous night and wind eased after 3am so all good.  Had a failure of the VHF aerial (starboard side) so at 2am I found it hanging from its cable trailing behind Pegasus…all hands… and we retrieved it and looks like we can mend it.   Just the bolt holding it at the base sheared and had to cut the cable, but if not damaged inside should be ok.  If not have emergency spare VHF aerial so not too bad. Anyway I’m sure we can fabricate something tomorrow when wind is behind.

I was up at 7am but Nic happy so I went back to bed to be called up at midday…wow slept well and strangely I seem to spend most of my sleeping time in our ngt morte bunk which is very comfortable and a novel experience when off watch.  Nic getting his sea legs and getting the feel of Pegasus which is great.  So some small damage but all good and a 200 mile day yesterday…great. (166nm day 1, 200 day 2). Our position midday Tue 11th 20.00N 61.04W making 8.5 at 015 magnetic (baro 1018 water temp 26.4)

Nic has joined Jason Lawrence on Pegasus, a Chris White Atlantic 46/LR catamaran, to cross the Atlantic.  They left Grenada last Thursday and sailed up to Martinique, setting off in earnest yesterday.  I am hoping to get daily updates on their GPS position and will the map on our website updated.  They hope to arrive in Cowes the first week of July.

All good here, rough and about 20-25kts wind but sea much bigger than we have seen for awhile.   Position at 10am local, about 16.21n and 60.41w.  Making 011 magnetic at 8-9kts.  Will push on north as close hauled, but may have to crack off a bit for comfort.

Monday night – all much better.   Spent day drying out Pegasus.   Washing line up – all wet and musky clothes and all hatches shut, door just ajar…smells terrible.  Sorting out Nic’s bunk which was wet from yesterday…water coming down heater chimney but all much better tonight and on wed through weekend looks like we can really get everything dry.

I obviously had something caught on starboard dagger board as when I lifted it this morning we started really sliding, which we hadn’t been doing since leaving Martinique and I reckon that caused us to be slow in getting out of the way of that big slapper..ho hum. Anyway much better day with some good steady mileage.  Now 50 miles east and just north of Barbuda heading just west of north and making 9kts.  Weather looking good over next week and should make our waypoint of 30n 58w on sat morning.  I hope then more easting into the top of the high pressure zone.