I am sitting in the cockpit taking in a late sunset over the Atlantic. It's about 9:00 pm Spanish time. We are headed for Gibraltar tonight. Finally the Med is within striking distance but we have been anchored for 5 days now. The last day I had a reliable, or at least the one I use, an FNMOC weather report, was the 31st of May. The navtex is missbahaving again so all we have to go on is the local VHF. I just dropped this to pick up the weather. Forcast is F4 deacreasing to F3 for Cadiz, but what we are interested in is the winds past Cabo Trafalgar. For the straights of Gibraltar we will have Easterly winds F6 to F7. Sea state moderate. Not ideal for an easterly passage to say the least. So the strategy is to run down the coast past Cadiz and stick our nose round the corner tomorrow morning. If it is still blowing a hooley in the straight we will pull into Barbate. Probably a 10 mile slog into fresh winds but hey, I'm up for it. So as I sit, the ETA to our waypoint ten miles off the coast is 11:00 in the morning. Good night sweet sailor, I am about to go back on watch.