Yet more doldrums

Morning of the 6th day out from Panama

Still in the doldrums, saw a couple of hours of sun yesterday, that's it for this trip so far.

Wind has been slightly better, though we had to beat most of yesterday morning and afternoon. That's painful if your used to trade wind sailing. Last night we had joy beyond measure, a following breeze that lasted several hours.

Panama City is a mere 450Nm away. Todays Thursday, nearly 5 whole days, and we've done 450 miles and burned a lot of diesel. Still we are more than half way at last.

With a bit of luck and conserving fuel when we can, that should be about 10 days to the Galapagos, which is a hell of an improvement on last time when it took the Ornen 23 days, that's longer than all 4 of my Atlantic crossings and a third the distance.

Even if the wind has been all over the place, at least the wind from last night and the 180° different wind this morning are cooler. The first few days brought the term "muggy" to a new level. It was light drinking the air, heavy and leaden. Any sort of motion resulted in dripping sweat as the air could suck up no more moisture.

Like I said, its probably character building