Jer: I feel as though I’m finally getting into the swing of things. I’m able to space out for hours at a time. The other night I got up, sat outside, and did nothing for 2 hours. Yesterday morning I…
Day 15 Atlantic Crossing
We have 700 miles to go and 150 miles of progress towards our destination. Nothing notable about sailing today. Same stuff different day. Forecast still looks good for an arrival on Sat. Essentially 1 day later then the original forecast…
week 3
Jer: I read Tim’s post and feel bad about busting his contemplative mood last night after waking up a little crabby and insisting on taking the Code Zero down. For clarification, we refer to that sail as the screecher, Code…
Day 14 Atlantic Crossing
We have 850 miles to go. That means we made another 140 miles of progress towards our destination. We sailed all day and still have the code zero out after diner for a while at least. Last night we took…
Day 13 Atlantic Crossing
We have 990 miles to go. That means we made another 160 miles of progress towards our destination. We sailed all day and still have the code zero out after diner for a while at least. Today was another lovely…
Day 12 Atlantic Crossing
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…