We have spent the last 3 hours with 3 reefs and a stormsail, on a stb beam reach with 30-35 knot winds, and 3/4mtr swells on the beam! At times we look more like a submarine than a yacht, and life on board is far from comfortable ! Only sensible thing to do is lie down , and we cant both do that: somebody has to be on watch, with all the shipping traffic coming and going. We have had at least one, but more often two ships showing up on the AIS for the past 12 hrs. We still have the pole out on the stb side, and are waiting for a lull to drop it, and stow it. We are also hoping that as we get inside the line of the Cabo Frio Oil fields (50-60miles), that the
sea state might moderate, as with this Northery wind , we will have to harden up to a fetch to make our course. On the plus side, we will have achieved a days run of 150nm by noon (1 hr
to go), which will leave us with 206nm to our Ihla Grande approach point. So at this stage we will look to make a Friday morning anchor drop in that first beautiful bay I went to with Chris , and the one featured in Nick Taylors video. Mary has ordered a boerewors braai with Strawberry Fields red wine! We have to look ahead, to forget the current discomfort! Current pos at 11.00 hrs (utc-2), is 22,50.7S,39,49W. Thats as much as I can manage at this angle! More tomorrow!