Makai heads south

Check out the “Where’s Makai” link to the right to watch our progress. We got our rental car in Monday and said “adios” to our friends and family in Buffalo, we will miss them. After a long drive arrived around 1am to go to bed on Makai. Tuesday was a flurry of activity loading up on meats, dairy and produce. Topaz got her health certificate, I returned the rental car and filled a bottle of propane to bring back with me. The rest of the day and most of Wednesday was spent putting things away, laundry and last minute chores.

Just before sunset we headed south. The temp is less than 40 which is extremely cold for the guy on watch. We did strict 2 hour watches and it took all of that two hours for the off watch guy to get ‘almost’ warm. With only a little jib rolled out Makai flew down the Chesapeake at 7-8 kts or more with the wind at the tail end of the storm. As predicted the wind died by morning but we went so fast that we were ahead of schedule which means we would get to Cape Hatteras too early an the big winds would still be at the cape mariners have feared for centuries. What to do? How about stop at Virginia Beach for 24 hours and let it pass. Last year for Thanksgiving we left North Carolina to sail south, this year we had a pleasant bit cold day napping and playing games on the boat.
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Here we are bright and early Friday morning heading to Cape Hatteras. The weather predictions are for 15 kts of wind all day, that is Makai’s favorite wind speed. We’re cruising along at nearly 9 knots and may roll the jib in to slow down a bit, don’t want to break anything. The plan is to get to Cape Lookout, NC by Saturday night when the wind is predicted to turn from behind us to in front of us. It’s a bummer, but you can’t sail directly into the wind. Never fear, on the East Coast the wind changes direction 180 degrees every few days so we should be off again early next week. Every day we sail south the temperature is predicted to increase 10 degrees. Four days of sailing south should get us up to 80, I hope. Sent from my iPhone

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