Closing on Brazil

Easy going for VDH as he heads south down the Atlantic

Day 17. Position at 1300: 9°25’S / 33°25’W
Wind 14 knots from ESE. Sea: slight.
Temperatures: day 28°C / night 17°C / sea 27°C
Distance covered in the last 24 hours: 282 miles.
To Cape Horn 3234 miles.
Lead over Monnet 2 days and 2 hours.

Hello

Every day, I have a lucky dip into a watertight crate to take out one of the many cuddly toys, which are accompanying me. Today, it was quite astonishing! It was a real model of a cuddly little cat sleeping in his basket. It was so realistic that I almost kept quiet so as not to wake him up! Besides that, he has a lot of other advantages: he doesn’t eat, he doesn’t smell, and he doesn’t claw everything in sight...

Adrien isn’t giving me too much work at the moment, apart from a few adjustments to the mainsail and the genoese (the wind has gone down and the genoese has replaced the solent). I’ve just started to read a long novel by Jack London that I love: Moon Valley.

There wasn’t a sign of life around me last night and I slept for four hours in a row for the first time. Usually, I wake up at least every two hours. In short, life is great at the moment!

Until tomorrow,

JL VDH

A day with Sebastien’s pussycat.