VDH flying

Weather changing again as Jean-Luc van den Heede feels the effects of the north Atlantic high

Day 115.
Position at 1300: 24°11'N / 28°15'W
Wind 20 knots from E. Moderate sea.
Temperatures: day 24°C / night 16°C / sea 21°C
Distance covered in 24H: 291 miles.
To the finish 2,100 miles.
Lead over Monnet: 25 days and 22 hours.

Hi there,

What a great weekend in terms of the distance I covered! I can feel it in the air, as it is much cloudier, the sun has hardly been out, the sea temperature is falling off rapidly, and the wind is becoming a lot less steady.

I wasn't going to finish my trip at the pace of the last few days! I do still have some flying fish landing on the deck, but I haven't put back out my fishing line for sea bream. It really was quite tasty! It seems astonishing to me that I can say that I'll be finishing next week. The notion of time, when you are at sea, made it feel like it could have lasted months and months more...I'd got into a routine and was used to doing certain things.

After crossing the finishing line, I'll take on board the two members of the team with whom I crossed the same line four months ago, and I'll put in directly in Les Sables d'Olonne according to the tides two days later (I'll leave myself a little margin, as I'll be relying on the wind).

See you tomorrow,

JL VDH

A day with the cuddly toy, a little bear who « holds on to the tiller and to the wind », given by
Hugues AUFRAY, the patron of ADRIEN