Distance to run: 222nm

Light winds overnight under full sail. Gybed @ 1030. Noon to noon run 113nm. 222nm to go. Touch and go for arrival St Helena before noon on 31 December.

Homemade Khushuur for lunch. Selfies in the cockpit and decks. Lovely sailing.

Options, gybe downwind on 290˚ and 340˚ headings, or dead flat off under “Twin spinnakers” (foresail and staysail) or Kite.

Got back to layline at 1530 with 200nm to go. Chose to drop main, staysail, hoist kite, drop foresail, gybe boat and then hoist main on new gybe heading 310˚ on rhumb line for St Helena.

Wind backed 20˚ at 1730, shadowing kite so dropped main and ran all night under kite. (first time I considered doing this and found it to be quite safe and possible).

Perfect conditions, 10-15knots. Frantic search for paper chart of St Helena Island. Then I recalled Tony Herrick’s email saying he could not provide. Would use OpenCPN to navigate around island (as I had overlooked buying a chart module for the chartplotter!).