Stormy
The last 48 hours have been interesting. We were in a fairly severe storm. Wind speeds were around 60 knots, which is just under a hurricane, or 11 on the Beaufort scale. Max pitch was 12 degrees and roll was 22, or about 40 degrees side to side. Which is quite a bit of horizontal travel when you are on the bridge 68 feet in the air. Waves were about 30 feet.
You can't really sail in weather like that, so we just pointed into the waves to keep the ship as stable as possible. Unfortunately that meant spending a day pointing to the northwest, away from home.
Today: Calm. About 15 hours from land. Tomorrow: Sailing through the Straits of Magellan. Then Terra Firma.
