Saturday afternoon

The wind became steady, and we have had two days of absolutely beautiful sailing. The wind is steady about 15-20, the sky clear blue and the seas comfortable. Instead of bashing, Advent is simply rising to meet the waves and riding over.
The wind is almost steady. It has backed about 20 degrees and now, instead of sailing 300 degrees toward New Jersey we are sailing 280 degrees toward Cape Lookout, about 300 miles away. But I can not get excited about North Carolina. When we cross the Gulf Stream we will be set to the right dramatically. The Gulf Stream flows at about 3 knots. We are only going 4.5 knots so even if we have favorable wind we will quiet likely be swept past Cape Hatteras up to Virginia.

This satellite text messaging service is simply amazing, but not particularly fun. But tonight Jeremiah talked wiht his friend Chuck on the short wave radio. That was fun.
Bill Doar
s/c Adevent II