June 18, 2018 and we sailed 78 nautical miles noon to noon in the right direction.
The winds finally calmed down, but are still blowing out of the North. This meant that we had the option of sailing on a close reach into the leftover seas, or sail on a beam reach going either East or West. West is back towards the US, and East takes us to Portugal!
The decision was simple, continue on the same tack in the same direction and on the same course as yesterday. We are fine going East at this point in time, but we do need to keep in mind that we still need to go further North to avoid sailing into the calm region between the Azores and Portugal, as well as getting swept South by the current that runs further to the East.
Like I said before, we are still far out so we are just trying to make it in either North or East directions. The winds will always shift at some point so we will never be going in one direction for very long.
