Current Time: 2:00 AM Current Position: North 18 degrees 48 minutes, West 53 degrees 43 minutes Hi, Everyone … From Philip, 4:46 PM, Sunday As I opened a galley locker this morning, to get out some cereal for breakfast, I realized that it had a “depleted” look to it. There is certainly enough there that […]
Month: June 2009
PANAMA TRAFFIC ZONE, CAPTAIN’S JURY RIG, CLEANLINESS, WATERBLOMMJIES
Current Time: 1:40 AM Current Position: North 20 degrees, 25 minutes West 55 degrees, 37 minutes Hi, Everyone. Moonlit night, very bright. Horizon zinging along, mostly 8 knots. Just scanned the horizon again for traffic. We are actually in a high-traffic area, because of the Panama Canal – ships coming to and from Europe, for […]
THE CAPTAIN’S JURY RIG OPERATION; MUFFINS
Current Time: 1:24AM, Wednesday morning Current Position: North 25 degrees, 03 minutes West 59 degrees, 06 minutes Hi, Everyone. So sorry for the silence. The sat phone charges were being put on a credit card that has a fairly low minimum, so even though we paid it off before we left, and because the charges […]
MAGIC MOMENTS, RESOURCEFUL BROTHER, REALITIES
Current Time: 1:26 AM Current Position: North 26 degrees, 55 minutes West 60 degrees, 21 minutes About 1000 miles from the Beavertail Lighthouse, Jamestown, RI Hi, Everyone. Last night was beautiful. I wrote this then: It’s currently Thursday AM – wee hours – I just sent out last night’s update. I will send this tomorrow. […]
HUNTING FOR WIND, BANDWIDTH FOLLIES, MAN IN THE MOON
Current Time: 2:14 AM Current Position: North 27 degrees, 10 minutes West 62 degrees, 06 minutes Hi, Everyone. Here’s a shot of a sunrise after a storm, a shot I took on this leg of the trip: Busy day. Started out with a spectacular display, aft of us, put on by a squall that had […]
GHOSTING TO BERMUDA, MOORING UNDER SAIL, OUR FIRST HORIZON JOB, LAUGHING GULL
Current Time: 1:15 AM Current Position: North 28 degrees, 38 minutes West 62 degrees, 50 minutes Hi, Everyone. Our search for wind to the west was a bust, so we gybed the main and the code zero sail this morning at the end of my watch, when Philip got up, and headed north again. Most […]
ZOOMING TO BERMUDA – NOT. SHOWING ALL SEA AROUND ALL THE TIME, TAKING DOWN THE SNAKE.
Current Time: 2AM and 5:30 AM Current Position: North 30 degrees 18 minutes, West 63 degrees, 06 minutes – about 100 miles south of Bermuda Hi, Everyone. Ch-ch-ch-changes. That’s one of the realities of sailing. This afternoon we were still ghosting along, with the code zero sail up and a very calm sea, just tiny […]
FINAL LEG, TERN HITCHHIKER, CHANGING DIRECTIONS
Current Time: 3:19 AM Current Position: North 32 degrees, 55 minutes, West 64 degrees, 08 minutes Hi, Everyone. Going upwind now (sailing as close to the oncoming wind direction as possible), making 5 – 7 knots in what is probably 5 – 10 knots of wind. We have a hitchhiker. Victor C. asked if we […]
THE ADMIRAL GETS PHILOSOPHICAL, THE CAPTAIN’S ANSWER, HOMECOMING
Current Time: 2:30AM Current Position: North 34 degrees, 48 minutes West 65 degrees, 20 minutes Hi, Everyone: So much to say, so little time. But, I’m sure we’ll be fine – As long as the fingers Don’t get ahead of the mind. Yes, I was a poet when I was younger. Even wrote quite a […]
MOTORING, NOT MOTORING, MOTORING … ALMOST HOME
Current Time: 1:30AM Current Position: North 36 degrees, 43 minutes West 67 degrees, 11 minutes Hi, Everyone. A high overcast layer is covering the moonlight tonight. We are motoring through a no-wind area, something we had to do earlier today, but only for a short time. Now we may have to motor all night; this […]