On the Atlantic between St. John's and Horta

The trip is almost over and we're in Milton Keynes, England and will be flying back to Toronto on Friday but I want to keep the pictures going in order because it's my journal.
This is Tony Arujo a friend of Jim's at the helm.

What a beautiful sunset looking over the self-steering windvane. The Atlantic is very, very beautiful and we were out there and couldn't see anyone else. We didn't see any planes the whole time we were sailing on the Atlantic either. Birds would come by and visit us and dolphins. It was so nice when they did.

Me at the helm. We did 2 hours shifts with two people for the watches on the way to Horta. 2 hours steering with both Anth and me in the cockpit and 2 hours sleeping or reading or getting a bite to eat. It was very interesting. This lasted for the full 13 days that it took us to get to Horta. If there needed to be a sail change or something to be fixed on the boat you didn't get your 2 hours off. It actually worked out really well and you could sleep through anything.

This is looking down into the main salon of the boat, a cot on either side with lee cloths to hold you in your bed and a small Vberth straight ahead. The head is on your left beyond the cots and the galley is on both sides before you get to the setees. At first Tony and Anthony slept on the cots, I slept in the Vberth and Jim slept in the 1/4 berth. There were only 2 people sleeping at the same time because the other two people were in the cockpit, steering and watching for Freighters.

There we are on our watch. We have our life jacktes on and foul weather gear and fleece and....every bit of clothes we could get on. We wore 3 layers most of the 2 months when we were sailing. It was coooooollllll and rainy.

This is the Kiss Wind Geneator. It....went around reallly fast but didn't put out any power to the batteries. Oh well, eventually we tied it so it wouldn't go round and sometime it'll get hooked up.

We made good speed, about 100 nautical miles a day, some days 119 and some 78. We motored as well as sailing. If we were going less than 2 knots we would motor until the wind came back up. It was sooooo beautiful on the ocean.

Lots and lots of water and the horizon was very, very far away. This looks like a good wind, look at that flag blowing.

Here you can see the Genny way out there and we're moving along.

Sky and Sea, sky and sea, sky and sea and clouds.

The wind vane. We put it up one day but it didn't work so well so it didn't get put up again.

Clouds and sky and sea, clouds and sky and sea ....

What a beautiful sunset!!!!!

Another sunset. Sometimes the sun went down behind the clouds and we didn't get to see any colours so I was delighted when there were colours.

Me sleeping with the lee cloth up. It was soooo cozy, I loved the lee cloths.

Me navigating. We did it on paper charts and on the GPS, no chartfinder.

This is a wee peek at Ireland. Isn't it just beautttifullll. I loved it there.