my experience in a leaner was much more benign. We were becalmed about 1/2 way to Bimini for about the whole day. Sea was parking-lot flat, but we all knew (and plotted - back in the LORAN C days) our northward drift which was pretty substantial. We couldn't even catch a weed-line for hours.

Hotter than Hades above and below deck (1975-ish Tartan 27 - 3kt sb) and the faint gas smell and bilgewater would make you really nauseous in that heat. I swear we were less than a mile from the sun out there, and it came from everywhere (up, down, sideways) and just cooked us. Stanchions would burn you, deck was insanely hot

Knowing what I do now, we should have dropped the main and used it as an awning... probably would have gotten some fish that way, too (shade draws a lot of them out there)

Finally got some slight breeze around 20:00 hours local time and had to make a pretty long beat to make some southing.

Would have been nice if the iron genny (maybe an Atomic 4? with crud in the fuel which was probably dislodged from the sailing up to that point) was working.... But we had beer (for the adults) and OREOs (for us) a plenty, so life wasn't totally horrid.

Our Bimini stay was cut short by a day or so to catch a window back to the states. I think it was a 16 hour sail each way for that boat if the pressure and angle were right...