News from Spaniel

Time: 08:30 UTC Our position is 28*48.979N 014*51.107W There are 48.33 nm left until the finish line in Las Palmas. Yesterday until the sunset we were running away from still (no wind) in all possible ways. NOT succeeded!

May 4th, 19:40UTC: 31*25'41N 013*15'64W; cog210*, sog6.7kts, dst224.4Nm,twa70*tws10kts Our celebration feeling - putting on the white table cloth to celebrate not only the regaining of Latvia's independence, but also a birthday of our Captain for R2 from Las Palmas to Bermuda. BArmen! Hip-hip- hurray! (x3)

Good night for us and good morning for you! At 4:25 AM our position is 34o33'124W 011o30'817N, Cog = 280o, true boat speed = 6.5 kts, wind from 140o , with speed of 14kts and 430NM to the first intermediate finish near Canary Islands. The last weather forecast predicts that we are expecting silence the next day. That is why it was decided at 1:30 to make a tack and go further into the ocean to catch some wind.