Sunday19July

Sunday 19 July

The middle of July. I measured the air temp in the daytime as 62 degrees and the water temp as 56. At night the air temp goes to the water temp, and at 02:00 I believe it. Something else here is the current. We are getting a 1.5 knot boost, sailing at 6.5 knots and the GPS reads 8.0. That really helps. Thank you Normandie for the south wind. We motored for about an hour this morning when it died away, but it has been really good sailing since. BNut the south wind has its disadvantages. The warm moist south wind blows across the cold Labrador Current and makes fog. I looked around this morning and the horizon looked hazy. Then the haze was closer, then we were enveloped in fog. Still sailing well. I thought that fog was only when there was no wind. For maybe an hour I used the radar, then the fog cleared. I was really happy to have the radar.
From s/v Advent II sailing east at 8 knots -
Bill Doar
Reef Early