We have 1151 to go. That means we made about 160 miles of progress towards our destination. We motored until this morning so only about 12 hours I think. Much less than the 24 to 36 hours of motoring we…
TGIF
Jer: Not much to report. The wind picked up around dawn and we are now moving along quite nicely with the screecher up. Averaging around 9 knots. It was nice to get a load of laundry done yesterday, I changed…
Day 112 Atlantic Crossing
We have 1318 miles to go. That means we made about 117 miles of progress towards our destination. Winds were about 10 kts so we left the spinnaker up all night. This morning winds died down to about 8 and…
bobbing along
Jer: Tonight I’m only writing as a coping mechanism to stay awake. We had our midway point celebration this afternoon. It was based on our best guess estimate of mileage due to several course changes making our exact mileage confusing.…
Day 10 Atlantic Crossing – Half Way +/-
We have “officially” changed our destination to Grenada and now have 1435 miles to go. Not sure exactly how much progress we made today. For those paying attention, I obfuscated the mileage so that we could have our half way…
Night watch
Jer: I have a love/hate relationship with the night watch. Tonight is on the love end of the spectrum. It is a TV commercial quality night. A more worthy person would be inspired to write a poem or compose a…
Day 9 Atlantic Crossing
We still have about 1480 miles to go so we made another 175 miles of progress today. We didn’t fly the spinnaker all day and the winds were gusting to 35 over the night and had a few small squals.…
week 1
Jer: No complaints regarding the first week. Tonight has been active. The wind has been all over the place both in strength and direction so constant monitoring and steering taking place. Nothing at all alarming or extreme, but more annoying…
Day 8 Atlantic Crossing
We still have about 1655 miles to go so we made another 180 miles of progress today. We didn’t fly the spinnaker all day but the winds were about 20kts most of the time so the two smaller jibs and…
clarification last post
The post about passage prep was made by Jerri, not Tim. I’m sure he has another view altogether. Sorry I forgot to put my name there. We are posting from Tim’s email so they automatically show him as the poster.…