Total Distance Traveled: 3001 miles

Great Circle Distance: 2941 Miles

Days Underway 21

Average Speed 6 knots

Route:
West down 1 degree south. Turn south west at about 112 degrees west.

Strategy:
Take it easy on the crew. Minimize waves, maximize current based on pilot charts and Visual Passage Planner.

Daily Runs:

Best Daily 192

Average 150

Worst 113

Engines:

Hours Motoring 34

Hours charging 168

Fuel Used 38 Gallons

Sails:

Mainsail Repairs Blew out three slides at head

Genoa Repairs De-lamination and holes at tack and along the foot

Spinnaker Repairs Numerous small tears, cloth getting old

Reefs used 1st and 2nd

% of time main sail reefed 70%

Weather:

Average wind speed 14 knots

Low wind speed Zero

Highest wind speed 28 knots

Wind direction Mostly south east, oscillating to east & north east

Days with rain 3

Average temperature 28C

Watch Schedule 3 on 3 off, round the clock

Hardest working crewmember Vasco (Our ComNav autopilot)

Winner of the Mustang Sally Trip Lottery Rae

Fishing:

Expensive lures lost 6

Lures Manufactured 6

Fish caught 2

Cost per fish roughly $40

Rae Sharon