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 […]
BATTLE WITH GULF STREAM, LOADS ON SAILBOATS
Current Time: 2AM – 6:30AM Current Position: North 37 degrees, 54 minutes West 68 degrees, 55 minutes Hi, Everyone: Only 230 miles from the Beavertail Lighthouse in Jamestown. At the rate we are going now, which could change – as you all know by now – that means landfall sometime on Saturday morning. But don’t take that […]
FOG. RADAR. SHIPPING LANE.
Current Time: 3AM EST Current Position: North 40 degrees, 07 minutes West 70 degrees 27 minutes Hi, Everyone. We are socked in. I can only see about 100 feet all around the boat. We are in a heavy shipping area. I am on watch and using radar to thread my way between ships that are […]
23 MILES FROM BEAVERTAIL, FLAT CALM, MAYBE A NEWPORT DOCK LANDFALL PARTY
Current Time: 2PM EST Current Position: North 41 degrees 06 minutes, West 71 degrees, 11 minutes Actually, now that I’m finally sending this, we are much closer. We are 16 miles from Beavertail. Hi, Everyone. Finally got a moment to bring you up to date. We are motoring. There is no wind. It was supposed to […]