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Day 3 – Voy­age: Tener­ife to St. Martin

Left the Port of Santa Cruz, light 10-knot wind blow­ing, but heav­ier winds are expected. Slow start to our voy­age, but no one is com­plain­ing. The autopi­lot keeps a straight course, so no hand steer­ing required. We’re try­ing to save some energy for the test­ing miles ahead. Heavy rain all day. Squalls then light winds. Rocky night expected. Received a VHF call from another yacht last night relay­ing a mes­sage about a yacht in dis­tress. Promised we would keep our eyes open. No sign of dis­tressed yacht though. St. Mar­tin: first a shim­mery glow, now clearly vis­i­ble. Almost there! After so long at sea it feels great to make land­fall! With a good breeze blow­ing we can count on mak­ing steady progress. Looks like we will be arriv­ing dur­ing the day. St. Mar­tin here we come.