Our Swedish yacht, Natibou, sends today's report.  They wrote it in Swedish, so I asked Mr. Google to translate it.  I thought I might tidy it up, but it's more fun trying to decypher it yourself!  Yesterday the fleet put their clocks back 2 hours, so they now get up 2 hours later than we do in UK.  They will stay on this time zone until next Saturday, when they go back 2 more hours.

Sunday morning 0230 position 20:04 N 30:08 W

Now we have got into the trade winds in real life, it is blowing now steadily from 22 to 24 knots (about 11 - 12 m / s), and we have two reefs in large and genuan also hard revad. The boat is fine, and everything works fine. Sometimes hitting a larger wave the boat from below, and then jumps to the table and it is easy to spilled coffee in the cup on the table dancing!

Today was the Jansson's temptation to dinner, with Spanish 'anchovies', not at home but it was good anyway. Yesterday, we suggested 24 Hour record with Natibou, we did then 202 nm in 24 hours (1000 to 1000) between two role calls on the radio. We were congratulated by all the other boats, efersom we was the first boat over 200 nm in one day, so far.

We passed right now "pointe magique ', the magic point, in the Atlantic after about 900 nm from Lanzaroet and a week opa sea ie latitude 20 'North and longitude 30' West. The best way to Caribbean from the Canary Islands are the classic expression (from the Columbus time) "Sail SSW at about 900 nm, until the butter melts, then turn west until you are ahead ". The modern variant is that at this point of 20/30 has proved to be a good balance between finding good strong winds, but do not have to walk a much longer distance to the south down toward the Cape Verde islands. The distance is then theoretically about 2700 nm, but in practice, all the boats to have at least 3000 nm in itself when we come to Anigua in the Caribbean. So nearly 1 / 3 finished - bar 2 / 3 left ... A first assessment of where we can reach is around December 2, stay tuned for an update.