Wind from Everywhere
March 17, 2019
Day 164
Noon Position: 55 32S 80 36W
Course(t)/Speed(kts): ExN 6
Wind(t/tws): SE 18 – 20
Sea(t/ft): SE 3
Sky: Squall clouds and every other kind too
10ths Cloud Cover: 10
Bar(mb): 996
Cabin Temp(f): 50
Water Temp(f): 43
Relative Humidity(%): 84
Sail: Working jib, two reefs; main two reefs; close hauled on starboard
Noon-to-Noon Miles Made Good (nm): 120
Miles since departure: 22,530
Avg. Miles/Day: 137
Days since Cape Horn: 107
Miles since Cape Horn: 14,890
Avg. Miles/Day: 139
Longitude Degrees Made Good (degrees minutes): 3 17
Total Longitude Made Good Since Cape Horn (degrees minutes): ...
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March 17, 2019
Day 164
Noon Position: 55 32S 80 36W
Course(t)/Speed(kts): ExN 6
Wind(t/tws): SE 18 – 20
Sea(t/ft): SE 3
Sky: Squall clouds and every other kind too
10ths Cloud Cover: 10
Bar(mb): 996
Cabin Temp(f): 50
Water Temp(f): 43
Relative Humidity(%): 84
Sail: Working jib, two reefs; main two reefs; close hauled on starboard
Noon-to-Noon Miles Made Good (nm): 120
Miles since departure: 22,530
Avg. Miles/Day: 137
Days since Cape Horn: 107
Miles since Cape Horn: 14,890
Avg. Miles/Day: 139
Longitude Degrees Made Good (degrees minutes): 3 17
Total Longitude Made Good Since Cape Horn (degrees minutes): 348 59
Avg. Long./Day: 3.26
Miles to Cape Horn: 378
Strange days continue.
On deck this morning, you could have been in two worlds. Look straight up and your vista is blue sky with splashes of warm sun. Look to any horizon, and you see a wall, gray and impenetrable. This, I imagine, is what those who believer in a flat earth think surrounds the nether regions of the world.
The barometer stopped its descent at 990mb, this at 5AM, but still the foretold wind from the SW did not manifest. Instead wind continued restless and light. My log for the last twenty-four hours records a different wind direction at every entry, and those are just the 
records it caught. From NW to N and NNE; back to S and SE; up to ENE and NE; over to SE, SSE and finally S…oh, wait…now SxW. Finally, this afternoon, a moderate wind at SWxS with a cold rain, but now we pound, inexplicably, into an E swell and make 4 knots.
But I am happy. It appears we dodged the heavy SW winds and are now positioned for strong westerlies for our final push to Cape Horn.
Cold fingers type mostly typos, so I’ll stop here. 
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