The sky is full of stars

One of the things that I was really looking forward to in this trip was the opportunity to see the night sky without any human interference and full of stars. And my wish was granted last night. A night with no clouds and no moon and millions of stars. I was mesmerized. Then we had the most beautiful moonrise, a bright and orange moon appearing between some low clouds. Such beauty!!

During the night we had very little wind, I spent some time helming but it was very difficult because the wind was very fickle and variable. Later on it picked up and we were doing 7 knots with the windseeker and the wind on our backs. I went to sleep for a few hours and when I got up we were sailing upwind with a lot of heeling

With these conditions life becomes quite difficult down below but it is fun on deck. You should have seen my smile as I helmed with a full main and Yankee 1 doing 9 knots. Weather was really nice and sunny without being unbearably hot, so a perfect day for sailing. Today it really felt for the first time that we were crossing an ocean.