May 6th

Trip metre 5474 nm

Distance to Horta 1327 nm

Distance in 24 hrs 88 nm

DMG  75 nm

1300 UTC

Nice sailing yesterday in 5 to 10 knot breeze, between E and SE.  Speed from 2 to 4 knots all day and night.  Still beating and can sometimes head straight towards Horta.  Trying to see if can rendezvous with "Bad Company" a 53m expedition motor yacht, which is en route from Bermuda to Mindelo, Cabo Verde, to spend some time sport fishing alongside my buddies there.  The captain, Graeme, is a good friend who lives in Horta when not at sea.

The wind picked up again this morning and Nuts started pounding pretty hard with the speed close to 5 knots, so I put in a reef to slow down a bit. Heading straight to Horta at the moment with sheets cracked off a bit.