Monday 23 February

Monday 23 February
Smooth, comfortable sailing. Inter-island in the Bahamas? This is the way to do it.
On plan was to sail from TCI (Turks & Caicos Islands) to Clarencetown, Long Island, Bahamas. That is a 36 hour trip; from sun-up the first day until sun-down the second day. It is now 18:00 on Tuesday and I am 45 miles from Clarencetown. The trouble is tyhat I left TCI at noon, and 36 hours later is midnight. So I will pass it by and head for George Town, Exumas, Bahamas. At 16:00 it was 100 miles away, so to make it before dark tomorrow I need to average four knots. Today was smooth, comfortable sailing. Trouble is that it has not been fast. I have been going about four knots. The forecast is for the wind to pick up a few knots, so if all goes well I will arrive George Town late tomorrow afternoon.
Anybody looking at the full moon?
Reef Early,
Bill Doar
s/v Advent II