2200 BST 16.08.15: The aim of the game, now we're out of the Solent is to keep on moving. We're now settled in to our watch system, I've had most of 3 hours kip and we're somewhere of Portland.
The bad news is we could be here a while, with only 10 knots of breeze we're barely doing two knots over the ground, and there is a little too much south and east in the course over the ground but as our speed over the ground is on, we're not going too fast in the wrong direction!
We can still see stern lights stretching across the horizon in front of us and a few starboard lights out on our port side. Looking at AIS we are not along in suffering from the tide with most of the fleet heading in a similar direction over the ground. At least we are not alone.
Everyone is waiting for the tide to slacken and the wind to shift north slightly.... It's all about keeping us moving in the meantime.
At least we didn't run aground on the shingles just past hurst, unlike one boat we saw... Not a good way to start (and finish) your Fastnet! Fingers crossed we don't make that kind of error... Time to check the charts!
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