Artemis Transat - the Hitchhiker - Loïck Peyron Blog

This cohabiting is changing my rhythm and my habits but it is also complicated for Vincent. He had a good night and was very well behaved! The poor old thing is trying to do as little as possible but I think it’s fairly unsettling for him. The few hours detour has put me on a slightly more Northerly course than the one I wanted to adopt, but it's not necessarily an issue for the next stage in the game.

The wind is really beginning to kick in again and it's coming at us from pretty much every angle. I’ve put in a reef in the mainsail and I’m under solent. However, with the wind set to fill in, it won’t be long before I put in a 2nd reef and then hoist the staysail up forward.

The center of the low is virtually dead ahead, or even a little further south, so I've ended up staying on a downwind point of sail and I’m slipping along nicely. The idea is to aim for the center of this low. That should take me close to the coast of Nova Scotia. Once there I'll have to negotiate another depression center, but it won't be as strong as the current one. There you have the program for the coming days…