29-12-2002 07.30h local time: Barbados it is!!!

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28-12-02: 13.10N 58.23W Another 57 nm, ETA Barbados 3.00 AM local time. ____________________________________________________________________
28-12-02 12.00h local time: 13.19N 57.50W Everything is very well, they will arrive tonight!
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27-12-02 22.00h local time: 13.25N 56.17W Another 180 nm...hardly any wind but enough fuel to get ashore
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26-12-02: 14.06N 53.51W Another 337 nm to Barbados (appr. 2 days)! Everybody happy.
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25-12-02: 14.31N 48.5W Merry X-mas, check out the voicemessages (poems!)
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23-12-02: 14.31N 46.24W Very bumpy swell, another 770 nm to Barbados (appr. 5 days)
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22-12-02: 22.14h local time: 14.13N 44.18W It's getting more quiet now after a lot of hard wind and big waves.
22-12-02: 14.12N 43.44W 20.45h local time Waves from every site possible, another 900 nm to go.
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21-12-02: 14.19N 41.29W Party: just crossed the 1000 nm border! (halfway!) Average speed: 7.1 kn, plenty fuel, water and SUN! (bloody hot)
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20-12-02 0.00h AM: 14.30N 39.12W Fisherman Bas has caught ànd cooked one big Dorado! (OK, Rob had to kill the motherfucker...)
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19-12-02 20.00h PM: 15.27N 36.11W
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18-12-02 20.00h PM: 15.12N 34.30W They have entered another timezone again, it's 3 hours earlier. Everything is well.
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17-12-02 20.20h PM: 15.17N 31.53W Another 1600 nm to Barbados, average speed: 6-6,5 kn. On the menu: hutspot (very dutch carrot.potatomash) à la Bas
17-12-02 04.45h AM: 15.25N 30.18W
17-12-02 03.00h AM: 15.19N 30.11W 160 nm in 24 hours so moving fast! Despite of a 8-hour repair on the ruther and keeping course just by sail.
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15-12-02 18.00 GMT/UTC?: 15.36N 26.28W, 30 nm (or 130???) distance Cap Verdes: after a quiet night they have seem to found some trade winds...?
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