After days of gliding over molten mirror, unzipped by flying fish our wind has arrived. I won't miss the noise of the motor, but do miss the magical seascapes. I came up for my sunrise shift to the sight of a massive cloud. No really, it was an awesome sight, bigger, heavier and just different! One minute we were motor sailing with 3kn breeze, the next we were sailing at hull speed, 8kn, through a wall of rain. It would have been nice to take our reacher down before the 20kn winds, but they didn't get stronger and it certainly was exciting. Visibility was thirty metres on one side and ten on the other, sea surface white from the rain's impact, lovely fresh water streaming all over Ellida. We had half an hour of full volume rain and another half as it faded, leaving just a nice breeze. We've been averaging over 6kn since then, an easy comfortable reach, we are on our way!
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