We departed Sunbay marina late in the day to ensure we had good daylight to clear the reefs off the north coast of PR. The sun was up the wind was blowing from the east and we were looking forward to arriving at our next destination.
The first night was a little bumpy but we were making excellent progress with the wind from behind and a helpful current pushing us in the right direction. We had a bit of a scare when a container ship called Tropic Unity started to catch us from behind, they appeared to be on a direct collision course and were making no signs of altering course. When they were a couple of miles out we called them on the VHF, for some reason we had a bad signal and then they decided to stop talking to us, but it had the desired effect and they moved a couple of degrees and went around us. Overtaking boat keeps clear !
Day 3 the wind dropped a bit so we launched our spinacre and spent the whole day at speeds of 6knts+ in less than 10 knots of wind, great fun!
We made such good progress that it looked like we could arrive early and avoid another night at sea. It then became a race against daylight and we set as much sail as possible and continually fussed over our course to ensure we didnt sail a meter more than was needed.
We almost made it but darkness fell just as our destination was in sight, we crept into Malcolm Roadstead until we were in 7m depths dropped the anchor and slept like babies....ZZZZZZ
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