#2. ADRIENNE II | Brazil To Gran Canaria | Life on the heel

October 10, 2025 | 21:53 UTC | 11°32.9' N 025°46.2' W | Life on the heel

This day started with another calm morning motoring through the doldrums. We’ve been very lucky to be spared from many squalls during our passage through these latitudes. Life onboard has been quite luxurious some of these days with good food, great company and time to rest before the next part of our trip.

We got a nice morning shower when a cute rain cloud flew by, continued by oven pancakes made by Lance and ending our morning shift with seeing some whale spouts in the distance.

During the day headwinds picked up and at one point a squall hit us (for the first time?) which made us put in a second reef in the main. Everyone was just happy to get some action after the calm days. Morale onboard was further boosted when Vilgot the legend made fish tacos for dinner, from the Wahoo we caught yesterday. Many cheers all around!

Now we are trying to make as much way north as possible, to avoid a weather system building, which Erik is following closely and briefs us about daily. Squalls pop up from nowhere here and some can grow quite big. We want to stay as far away as possible. In the meantime we have 220M left as the crow flies to Cape Verde, planning to sweep by before starting our last leg of this passage, up to the Canary Islands.

We are back to a life on the heel – but like Brittany says, you just got to lean into it!

David | ADRIENNE II Apprentice

Brittany at the helm