Day 17 - at sea

Our voyage is turning out to be a long one.
We are having to dodge a weathersystem with high winds.
We are at 31N and the weather system is passing to the north of us.
We have had nice sailing wind the past 20 hrs. and it looks as it will continue like this for
at least another 24 hrs. We have approx 870nm left to Horta. ETA is now 28. May.

We have been in company with S/Y Fathom. A 28 foot UK sailboat also bound for Horta.
He was very low on diesel and we gave him 20L. The transfere was easy as we had 2 empty 25 liter cans. 10L in each and a rope between them and over the side. Thom on Fathom fished them out with his boat-hook.

Grete ready to drop the diesel cans.

Thom fishing out the cans.

Thom is on the way home to Yarmouth harbor on the Isle of Wight - returning from a 4 year trip around the world.

This morning we were passed by a large norwegian LNG (gas) tanker.
She was M/T Arctic Princess under way to USA to load LNG for Europe.
Normally they are on contract with Equinor and transport LNG from Snøhvit/Malkøya gass terminal ved Hammerfest.

The mate we talked to on the VHF was a sailer aswell and his boat was in a marina in Grenada.
He was very frustrated with the fact that Grenada is closed by the Covid-19 restrictions - and he can't get to his boat.

We are both well, boat is all OK - but we look forward to reach Horta.

Still on 14.328 SSB/CW at 1900Z and 2130Z - and condx to N.Europe been very good.

Grete & Geir