Pauline is having her turn at sleeping, well it an hour or so past her normal bedtime (smile).
It is quite eerie and natural at the same time, the sea still flows, the wind still blows but the sun has moved on and you are sat in a room of darkness. In fact it's more like a room with a candle as you can still see things.
We are 43 nautical miles from Roscoff and making good progress towards our 0700 planned arrival time. The wind has been good to us so far. We managed to average 5.6 knots going from 4-7 knots from just an hour out of Dartmouth.
These long hauls are not our favourite sails but Pauline has her audio books and I have my music. In between we take it in turns to plot our position. A necessity at the moment as the instruments circuit breaker has cut out three times in 10 hours. The plotter is brand new so not sure what is causing the overload.
Guess overall it's not a bad way to start your retirement!
More later my friends.
Our Route
Sun setting on us and a passing ship
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