Rio Grande to Enseada Pinheira - Day 2
11/11/11 22:03 Filed in: Brazil | On Passage
Overnight the wind settled to around 22 knots SSE with a moderate sea and swell. I chose to sail a bit closer to the wind to get offshore as quickly as possible.
Some fishing and commercial traffic during the night but nothing too close.
By morning conditions eased with the wind variable but settling around 12kn SSE-SE.
Noon run 73 miles. Very good speed and if maintained will see us in Enseada Pinheira early monday afternoon. The set on shore appears much reduced and we are now 25 miles offshore on our charted course.
A relaxing afternoon at sea. Speed 4.2knots and the sounder just reading "Deep".
Tanker "Gan Triumph" in ballast bound SE.
Lovely red sunset with a container ship silhouetted on the Horizon?
Later a Brazilian fishing vessel came quite close and dropped a buoy illuminated with a tiny strobe light. Very difficult to see at 2-300 metres.
No change during the evening. Lovely conditions. Good sailing.
Some fishing and commercial traffic during the night but nothing too close.
By morning conditions eased with the wind variable but settling around 12kn SSE-SE.
Noon run 73 miles. Very good speed and if maintained will see us in Enseada Pinheira early monday afternoon. The set on shore appears much reduced and we are now 25 miles offshore on our charted course.
A relaxing afternoon at sea. Speed 4.2knots and the sounder just reading "Deep".
Tanker "Gan Triumph" in ballast bound SE.
Lovely red sunset with a container ship silhouetted on the Horizon?
Later a Brazilian fishing vessel came quite close and dropped a buoy illuminated with a tiny strobe light. Very difficult to see at 2-300 metres.
No change during the evening. Lovely conditions. Good sailing.