The wind Gods were listening and the breeze filled in nicely Sunday evening from the East. We enjoyed a nice reach through the night with speeds in the upper sevens and occasional eights. It was such a relief to sail again and turn the engine off for awhile. This period of sailing now gives us plenty of reserve fuel for our approach to Antigua.
During the night the babystay had parted at it's swedge connection at the mast. The babystay is used to tension the leading edge of the mast about halfway up the mast and will be replaced by a rigger when we get to Antigua.
We are currently about 90 miles from Antigua and would arrive around 11:00 PM tonight but we chose to slow the boat down so we may have a daylight arrival at Falmouth Harbor Tuesday morning. In order to slow the boat sufficiently, we furled the jib and are sailing under just a reefed main and we're still going too fast.
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