07/20/02
We stopped the engine at 0935, and are hobbling along on a reach with light winds. We are currently 704 miles from our waypoint at St. Vincent.
As of 1900, we have once again started the motor. Earlier today, the wind swung around behind us, and we set the boom preventer and whisker pole for a run. We also had to reset the lower batten, as it had come loose from it’s socket on the luff of the sail and had worn a hole in the sail. Later on in the afternoon, the boom vang pulled the car off the track, bending the end of the track. Eric fixed this with a small sledge hammer and steel block that he keeps for this purpose.
Eric spent some time looking through a book on cruising routes, to determine the best way to cross the doldrums between here and Fernando de Noronha, then how best to make the passage from there to Cape Town.
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