Morning of uncertainties, the wind plays tricks until easing down and becoming more stable.
Wind is there, wind backs, wind veers, wind drops. Shifting and dancing as we are busy on deck trying to adapt sails and rig to its capricious will.
It is by breakfast time when it finally comes to the expected SSW, dropping in strength too and becoming more steady, although it ended up backing to a WSW-ly while the seas abate.
We sail now with all the canvas set but the upper staysails, which are hoisted after lunch but just for a couple of hours.
A day for thinking about our routing. We try to dodge the worst of the forecast upcoming weather. We scoot between Lows, their centres and wildest windy areas. We duck under one, we sail over another one. So, time for a Gybe comes in the evening, changing tack to head now on a northeasterly course.
With different courses during the day, leaving behind the foulest winds, dipping under the deepest low pressure systems, eluding the worst of it, still we sailed 158 nautical miles. A straight line between us and Cape Horn is 1384 nm long.
