The remark above “Hazardous conditions can occur outside of the cone” are evident for an area around mid way between Santa Maria and Funchal. 33kt of wind gusts (excluding the +5kt additional based on experience) and 2.9m waves with 8s wind wave period. On a four days passage, this would be our approximate position.
Although these conditions are in principal managable, I decided to give it a miss hoping that the northern Atlantik will come up with a less challenging window in a weeks time or so.
Skipper Jan from SY Sutje together with his 1st mate Reinhard did finally throw the lines this morning heading over straight to Canary Islands after 2 month of excellent accompany within the Azores. We will try to connect via HAM Radio tonight to see how it goes.
Fair winds…
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