One day done

Well, the good news is that we have fine weather and fast progress towards the Turks and Caicos Islands. We've covered a healthy 150 miles in the first twenty four hours and it's sunny and warm outside.

Sadly, we have big waves, a large northerly swell is being sent down to us by a storm much further north, giving us a regullar and not entirely comfortable rocking over waves at least ten feet tall. Gesa and Max are suffering badly from their seasickness, dealing with it by spending much of the time asleep. Gesa spends three hours on watch, on deck, then takes to her bunk for my watch. I'm trying to make sure Issie and I get properly fed, and the other two looked after, and snatching sleep when Gesa takes her watch.

Hopefully, the good progress will see us in, probably, South Caicos by early Wednesday morning, where we can rest and recover before making the twenty four hour hop to Mayaguna in the Bahamas. We'll have to wait for a weather front to pass as well, which should be here on Wednesday and coincide nicely with our time in port.

All's pretty well, considering! N.

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