38°0.1’N 31°51.3’W
SOG (Speed over Ground): 6.8 knots (motoring)
Heading: 075
Distance to Horta: 156nm
Distance from Bermuda: 1,640nm
ETA (Horta): 6pm Saturday May 31
After this morning’s dolphinfest I think we saw only one more today. Still no fish. Two points of interest today. The first was coming upon ìSummer Breezeî which has been traveling all the way from St Martin. They have been on the road, so to speak, for 16 days which is pretty impressive. We little passed within shouting distance. We’re all heading to Horta so suffice to say, we’ve agreed which bar to meet at.
Night highlight was coming upon a 30-40ft fin whale right next to the boat. It circled us twice, sussing us out we reckon, while we ran about shouting and taking pictures ñ far fewer than buttons clicked unfortunately.
I’ve done some trigonometry. With Pico being listed as 2.3km high, I reckon the top of it should, in theory, be visible from 100nm away. That’s of course if the atmospheric visibility allows it. Practically it won’t. Nevertheless, at dawn tomorrow we’ll be a good bit less than 100nm from Pico. Therefore, it is possible, that at dawn we could just see an outline of Pico ñ our first sight of land. If dawn tomorrow is anything like this morning then we’ll nail our first sighting of land at sun up. Wow. Now that would be cool.
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