Jean-Luc told us the clouds 80 miles away indicated the start of the Doldrums. We were sailing in such nice wind that when we arrived to the clouds they were exactly like the ones in the satellite picture.

 We need to go where we want to go, without other teams putting pressure on us.

We have perfect weather conditions with almost 14 knots and fairly dry winds that make life onboard pretty enjoyable

After several hours looking for the shift, we finally found it. It feels good to know that we won’t have to tack again in six days time. For now we’ll just have to sail to the north of Brazil and then cross the Equator.

From 20:30 UTC we were expecting a 50º shift and a tack with it which would put us heading NW. But it’s 06:00 UTC now and nothing’s happened, although we found ourselves doing one tack after the other.