Monday - George Washington's Birthday
The wind forecast shows the wind going to zero on Thursday, but then instead of clocking around to the north-east and building back up, it is forecasted to stay from the north-west and north until next Monday. My time on Turks & Caicos was timing out anyway, and I didn't want to wait a week to leave, so I scrambled around, went to the market, the hardware store, bought gasoline for the outboard in case I need it, checked out with officialdom, turned in the car, and slipped the lines at straight up 12:00.
My route will be 58 miles to Mayaguana, then 22 miles up to the Plana Cays, 23 miles to the north-east corner of Acklins Island, and 63 miles past Crooked Island to Clarencetown Long Island. Almost 170 miles. If I sail real fast I might make it another 60 miles to Georgetown before the wind goes bad.
There should be a deLorme inReach track posted on adventtwo.blogspot.com , and the wind forecast is on passageweather.com.
Reef Early
Bill Doar
s/v Advent II
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