We all welcomed day 21 with hope and optimism. Steve confirmed that we should see land by tomorrow morning and make land fall by tomorrow sunset. Tomorrow! What a wonderful word. Today would have been a better word but tomorrow is good enough. All we had to do was average three and half knots for the rest of the trip. Easy peasy. Yeah. Don’t forget we’re in the twilight zone.
\nIn the morning we were doing three and half knots. In the afternoon we were doing two and half knots. In the evening the wind died and stayed dead. During my night watch we were doing one and half knots. The nearer we got to land, the slower the boat got. Would we ever reach land? At the end of my night watch it was 0.8 knots. The ETA showed 74 hours. Thats another three more days. Wasn’t it three days ago that the ETA was three days. Noooooooo!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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