November 12: the Easterlies continue!This is really on the nose and slows us down although we really try to motor sail in order to do as much easting as possible. There seems to be no perspective of winds changing for a better course. At times, it is really difficult to know how to set sails: the winds will vary between 8 and 16 knots...so we have too little or too much sail up! At night, we have a rule of double reefing our main sail in order to avoir having to go on deck ..but it slows uns down. Night skies do remain beautiful, however, and we have moon light every night...as well as guiding stars!