Day Three

We’re 72 hours out and 434 nm along, 122nm in the last 24 hours, not very good progress. This morning after struggling all night to keep the spinnaker full, we turned on the engine. I just emailed my friend Brian yesterday to tell him that his suggestion for burning diesel was not a desirable option. For about 5 hours this morning we motored along at 6 knots and the apparent wind on our instruments showed 6 knots. Apparent wind is the wind in your face on a still day when you are riding your bike down hill. Wheee, that’s fun, watch out for bugs in your teeth. So if our apparent wind speed matches our boat speed, its safe to say there’s no wind out there. This is nuts, we’ve always had crazy 20+ knot trade winds that required us to reef the sails, and hold on tight. Every miserable crossing all winter long had conversation about how great it would be sailing to Florida with that wind behind us, but as luck would have it the wind went on vacation this week. The grib file weather charts say that until we get to the Providence Channel that goes between Eleuthera and Great Abaco Island, our wind will be 10 knots or less. Just another 378nm to find wind. The good news is that the seas are flat so we feel like we’re living on a 47 ft by 23 ft island, the wind turned a bit toward the north so we can sail now at about 4 kts, the forecast is for us to get 10-15 knots of wind tonight (but then less than 5 after that), and no one is complaining! I finished Carry on Mr. Bowditch. Everyone likes it when I get excited over exciting parts or make up sentences to see if they were listening. It is slow maturing perennial herb that is found in the blood and it is the easiest method to india generic tadalafil obtain energy with the body. How much more if tadalafil cheapest price you don’t have prescription of this kind of pill from your doctor? Well, I guess that you know already the answer of this question. The implementation and adoption of the significant advantages of viagra pills in india have been mentioned: viagra – The Most Reputed ED Drug This medicine was invented for the arterial hypertension, but its effective results for the boosted hard-on made it an ED pill. For example, be nice, honor your parents, share what you have, be strong, don’t cry, make us proud of you, be perfect, don’t speak up. viagra without prescription online Nat Bowditch had only been married for a few months when he went back out to sea. He said he wished he could talk to his wife, so I inserted into the paragraph that one of the men he was with offered to let him use his cell phone because he had plenty of minutes and no roaming charges. We’re working on a few chores today. There was quite a large rain cloud hanging over us last night. It wasn’t moving and we weren’t moving so we got pretty wet, but the boat got a nice wash. The cockpit is another story, after a few days the crumbs, sand (from who knows where), and other debris really build up. Luckily we can still make water, so I hosed the crud out. Eric is replacing a part on Genny’s toilet. You have to keep the sea water out of the bowl otherwise it stinks like crazy, luckily Eric is always prepared. He announced that the screwdriver he is using was a party gift he got from the Saylin family for their son’s birthday. Great idea, tools in the goody bag! You never know when it will come in handy. I don’t think we saw anything out here in the last 24 hours, but the Turks and Caicos Islands are about 25 miles off our port beam.

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One Response to Day Three

  1. Big Roy says:

    “Diesel is cheaper than sails” was the word on the street when you got tired of putting up with slatting sails.