Less wind, less comfortable!
5 June 2008 19:40UTC 39’19N 069’01W As the wind eased, we finally hoisted more sail, and more, and more until we had a fabulous three or four hours at top speed in decreasing seas. Eventually, a bank of cloud appears ahead of us. This is the cold front – the boundary between warm and cold […]
All well and good
05 June 08 10:40UTC 38’33N 069’11W It seems that our near gale at midnight was the worst of it, touch wood. Now, at daybreak, we’ve got twenty to twenty-five and are nearing the northern edge of the gulf stream. We’ve been ultra conservative all night, tootling along under a reefed jib at about five knots, […]
Midnight
05 June 2008 04:30UTC (00:30 local) 38’04N 069’20W The wind’s rising, as forecast, now a fairly steady thirty knots, near gale force. That’s about thirty five miles per hour. We’ve just dropped the main completely and are running under reefed jib alone. We sacrificed a little speed for a lot of comfort and security. Murphey’s […]