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Day 7 Newport trip

Start of Day 8

Position: 29° 38.6679' N 067° 49.3199' W

Boat: All good with the boat and sailing well.
All went well and we sailed well all night on the gennaker with no storms

People: we are both fine
Speed: 5 to 8 KTS
Wind: 8 kts south easterly
Distance 145 miles sailed yesterday
Course: true , to Newport Rode island
Conditions: good with average swells of 0.5 m but its pretty flat at the moment

24-hour mileage: 145 miles with around 725 miles still to go to Newport and now past half way with an estimate of 1075 miles sailed

Comments:
Not Much to report today because its calm and we are sailing at my kind of pace with a wonderful comfortable ride
I loaded the first three or four or five episodes of the Airticket saga so there is enough to read without more today but beware i am going to add more soon and the next one will be the stove drama
Lets hope it is a quiet day
Kevin

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