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Midnight Sailor

Alright, crew, the last 24 hours have been a bit of a pain! We've had light and fickle winds, ranging from a gentle 8 knots to a slightly more respectable 14. But the real kicker? Those wild shifts in direction!  It's enough to make you want to tear your hair out. In these conditions, one of the things we keep a close eye on is our VMG, or Velocity Made Good. Basically, it tells us how fast we're actually moving towards our destination. Now, here's the thing: even if we're not pointing exactly in the right direction, we can still be making progress. But as we stray further off course, that VMG starts to drop. And if we were to keep turning away from our destination? Well, let's just say our VMG would hit zero and then start going negative. Yikes! I'm not entirely convinced the tracker you can see tells the whole story, though. It only updates hourly, so it misses some of the, shall we say, "creative" arcs we've been making. Typically, we g...