So much for plans!

Last night the wind just died! It had been dropping steadily during
the day, and we had been forced to sail off the wind using just the
headsail, and creeping along at 4/5 knots. This morning the swells
made the sails slat and flog ;bad for the soul! Since then we have
tried every single combination of sails we have got ,to try and
achieve some reasonably comfortable forward momentum!Had some fun with
the genaker ! Wind was blowing about 10/12 knots, and the only way we
could get it to fly was when we wound up the wick and really went off
the wind. Problemm was that we were ending up 50deg off course, and
Fred could'nt handle it! I had some fun hand steering for a while, but
7 knots in the totally wrong direction is not a win!We poled out sails
and used every trick in the book! The only one still not tried is the
iron spinnaker! AT present we are drifting down to Sts, at 3 to 4
knots in beautiful blue water,with wind in the 9/10kn range, under the
same 7/8 overcaste skies that we have had for the last 8 days.
Occassionally the sun pops through for a few minutes, and then
dissappears again. Its really messing up our own power struggle! We
are currently 19.04S,01 30W, exactly 300nm from Sts. At this rate it
will take 100 hrs to get there! So much for carefully trying to plan
an early morning arrival! On the bright side, all I can say is that we
have lots of books to read, and strip off every time the sun pops out,
so we could arrive quite relaxed , with a far better suntan than we
imagined! If we had been racing we would be going loco! Lets hope
tomorrow brings some wind! Fussy guys ,are'nt we? Either too bloody
much, or not enough!!cheers!