Thursday Night

Friday morning 02:00
Bermuda 170nm. We should arrive Saturday morning.
When we started a cold front was forecasted to follow us out, and stall to turn into a warm front about 1/3 of the way to Bermuda. Instead of stalling that front has continued along behind us giving us the favourable but strong winds and overcast/rainy weather. What is left of that font is going to over-run us tomorrow night as a weak occluded front, and the result seems to be dying wind and probably overcast / rain. All we have seen is gray or rainy sky. Tonight the clouds are ragged. Then there was a break in the clouds, and a beautiful full moon illuminated our world. It was absolutely beautiful; the ragged clouds, the choppy seas, the boat always moving forward through the water. I love to stand in the cockpit looking forward across the boat, watching as she rolls, pitches, and parts the sea. The joy, the thrill, is worth every penny of hardship we have paid.
Dirty, wet clothes. The boat is full of dirty, wet clothes. This is only a six day passage. Some people are at sea for weeks, crossing an entire ocean. How do they do it? what do they do with all the wet clothes? We tried drying it on the weather lifelines and the spray soaks it. We tried the lee lifelines, and occasionally the lee rail buries in the water, and the resulting splash soakes it. Inside the boat is festooned with damp draperies. In two days we will be in a land blessed with laundry-mats.
Bill Doar
s/v Advent II