Our first day underway was better than we could have hoped for: cerulean skies, 22 knot winds just aft of our beam, and seas no larger than half a meter. It was comfortable, breezy, balmy sailing at its finest, and we were even treated to an evening rainbow as a swath of dark clouds drifted overhead to refract beams of light from the sinking sun. The winds faded over the course of the night, and we fired up the motor around 2 am and have been motor-sailing and averaging six and a half knots since.

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