 There can't be a coincidence that approaching every single waypoint on this route, I have been becalmed. I was becalmed off Finisterre, I was becalmed off Capes and Vincent, I was becalmed before Tarifa, and last night I was becalmed here before Capodagata. I'm burning diesel again because otherwise I'd set fire to myself. Interestingly the will to live meter is on 100% now. Truly rounded. Ciao. Arriveder. 20.3. 20.3. Mays balls. Of course this doesn't account for any tide or the displacement of my sounder so it's coincidence but still. Breeze and the sun. This is really fantastic sailing now, this is exactly why I wanted to come to the warm beautiful Mediterranean. We are currently flying along under that beautiful asymmetric kite. Let me find something useful. So 11 knots of wind and we're doing four knots through the water. We're actually going a little faster over the ground because there's some current helping us as well and we've got 86 miles to the next cape. And not only am I using the wind to get me there, I'm using the sun to power the boat. It's 110 watts of solar panels there and that's currently not only powering everything but recharging the batteries and charging my iphone ipad everything. I've got power to spare and of course we're using both the sun and the breeze to dry everything which is absolutely sodden from the last two weeks of beating ahead of four sevens and eights. Never gets completely dry on the ocean I'm not sure why although this feels pretty good but everything was sodden and so today I'm going to try and dry as much as possible. Yeah now we're having fun babe now we are having fun. Look at that sail. That is my favorite thing. Whoops I need to trim it. This old coastline looks the same. It's pretty unhospitable but it looks nice from a distance. I bet it's baking hot over there. I mean it's hot here on the boat. Reminds me a bit of the SanctiN Island. In an effort to not get becalmed just before the next cape yet again I've put my foot down so now what I think is the optimum sail plan for these conditions which is second reef main. I know second reef sounds a bit drastic but this is a much bigger than normal main main sail for a twister and it's way too powerful. First reef you have to put it in just for 10 knots sailing to be honest to make the boat feel anything like correct. So yeah second reef on the main and sort of half a reef on the Genoa as well and that's giving me well as you can see we're up to peaks of seven knots over the ground. There you go and through the water about six knots peaks. If I do a little more trimming I can get that a bit more constant at around six knots but the waves keep knocking us over a little bit and I don't want to get it to the point where something silly happens because of course the tiller pilot you don't sound happy can you hear him. You see he's grinding lots of grrr not good not good yeah so I've put my foot down for the first time I've been very cautious on this whole trip you know there was times when I was flying just a handkerchief of jib as we were going downwind in those big big waves and winds but maybe if I'd have powered up a little bit more we might have had a smoother ride uh I'm determined six point two I'm determined not to get be calmed yet again if I get be calmed one mile after we've rounded it I won't mind it's Cartagena by the way that we're going now um I won't mind at all I don't mind if I have to sit there for six days but if I get be calmed before it I'm going to be really really pissed off so that's three so we're hammering it now this boat has a waterline length of 21 and a half feet so those of you with a little bit of naval architecture knowledge can work out the um the whole speed for this boat and you can see that we are approaching and on the whole speed