Sat 25 July

Sat 25 July
For the past two days I have been occupied with trying to minimize the bad weather associated with frontal boundaries and low pressure systems. We ran all night to cross in front of a low system, and today the concern is another low coming up the frontal boundary from North Carolina. Both of these are forecasted to become gales just about the time they get here, and hopefully both will be about 100nm farther north. There have been many "concerned" messages today from me to Normandie, and almost as many reassuring messages from her back to me. And all this time there has been no wind, and calm seas. We are just chugging along about 4 knots, right now going just a little south of due east. The hope is that this clump of bad weather will pass by ahead of us. I think all the weather in the North Atlantic Ocean is coming together right here, and when we get past here we will have smooth sailing the rest of the way. (Dream on, Bill,)
Reef Early,
Bill Doar,
s/v Advent II
830 nm east of Block Island