Monday, August 5th, 2019

S/Y Visions of Johanna
North Atlantic Ocean
Monday, August 5th, 2019
0800 UTC
54 26.0N/47 13.9W
SOG 7.8, COG 215
Wind 11-13 knots, TWD 095, seas 3-5' (edit: wind 14-17 kn past 1/2 hour)
Bar 1015.5. Cloudy, fog, minimal precipitation

Wind eased steadily throughout the day yesterday from the 18 kn range to 14-15 knots early evening to 11-13 knots overnite. We struck jib and staysail and put out the reacher before noon and have have been able to keep Visions of Johanna sailing well through the overnite hours. SOG dropped briefly below 7 kn on two occasions but we have generally been able to maintain speed in the 7.25-7.5 knot range by heading a bit south of the rhumbline to keep the ENE-E wind more toward the beam.

Reacher is still flying this morning and beam wind strategy will pay off if the south-easterlies arise as forecast as this will allow us to turn our bow directly to St. Johns while keeping the wind abeam; the SE winds should arise later this afternoon or early evening. Meanwhile in these early morning hours wind has veered from 093 region to 101 degrees which is likely the very beginning of the shift and wind-speed has gently increased again to the 12-14 kn range. We have been able to make SOG closer to 8 kn over the past two hours.

A large pod of pilot whales romped astern of us for a while yesterday afternoon, otherwise a quiet day aboard. Lunch yesterday was a home made bean soup and fresh made pizza. Dinner was Johanna's Sheppard's Pie and roasted courgettes. Crew felt rested and there was then some gab around a desert of slices of fresh pear and apple, cookies and chocolate, with a choice of teas.

Situation fine here this foggy morning, and

All well aboard, sending,

Best wishes from Bill and the crew of Visions of Johanna




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