We have been traveling East for months now. Today we crossed over from West longitude to East longitude. It's also called the Prime or Greenwich Meridian or just Zero degrees.
Our position when we crossed was:
N37 48.7
E000 00.0
The sail so far from Ceuta has been mixed. As we departed port we had 25 knot winds from the West that gave us a good jump start down the Med. We were seeing 9+ VMG for quite a while the first day. The first night the wind died completely and did not come back in the morning. We motored all day on Tuesday July 5th. Today is Wednesday and the wind has been fantastic all day. It's been downwind and fair seas. We are running almost on our track and making 5-6 VMG. We anticipate arriving at Formentera early Thursday morning. We have a nice anchorage picked out there and we will stay until we get bored or run out of peanut butter. I seriously doubt if we will have Internet. Ceuta is on the African continent so our path on this leg has been mostly Northeast. If you recall some of my earlier posts showing all of the boat traffic in the Straits of Gibraltar you know we had to cross those traffic lanes again. We made it though just fine but we had to do a little dodging. We had a lot of trouble getting ships to answer us when we called them. It kind of reminded me of the old video game "Frogger" and we were the Frog...
(Happy Birthday Mom!)
Our position when we crossed was:
N37 48.7
E000 00.0
The sail so far from Ceuta has been mixed. As we departed port we had 25 knot winds from the West that gave us a good jump start down the Med. We were seeing 9+ VMG for quite a while the first day. The first night the wind died completely and did not come back in the morning. We motored all day on Tuesday July 5th. Today is Wednesday and the wind has been fantastic all day. It's been downwind and fair seas. We are running almost on our track and making 5-6 VMG. We anticipate arriving at Formentera early Thursday morning. We have a nice anchorage picked out there and we will stay until we get bored or run out of peanut butter. I seriously doubt if we will have Internet. Ceuta is on the African continent so our path on this leg has been mostly Northeast. If you recall some of my earlier posts showing all of the boat traffic in the Straits of Gibraltar you know we had to cross those traffic lanes again. We made it though just fine but we had to do a little dodging. We had a lot of trouble getting ships to answer us when we called them. It kind of reminded me of the old video game "Frogger" and we were the Frog...
(Happy Birthday Mom!)