June 16, 2019, a storm started brewing over the Azores and started taking us a bit West in our Northern course. Yes, this is technically away from our destination, but it was a much more comfortable point of sail!
We reefed down heavily and sailed only 74 nautical miles made good that day from noon to noon. We aren’t too worried about the deviation from our course because we are still so far away that it doesn’t really affect our course overall. If we were racing, we would not be so lackadaisical about our heading, but we are not racing, we are cruising! We just sailed along on a beam reach and as the wind shifted we just deviated from our ideal course without concern or worry.
