Bill and Mike carry the bagged sails to the dinghy.

It is now the end of a long day. The final preparations for a departure in the morning for what appears like a really benign crossing of the Gulf Stream to the Bahamas.

The day started with the loading of one of our most important cargos. We had been talking with a sail loft in Fort Lauderdale about delivering some sails and material to Haiti as we head south. There was a delay in our connection with us, so I started to look for another source and found Sails for Sustenance. This is a volunteer organization that gathers sails from all over the US, packs them a generally has them added to shipments going to Haiti. It sounds like we are the first sail boat to be loaded with sails. What makes them unique is that they keep track of where the sails come from and what fisherman they end up with. For Instance, we believe that the sails in out three big duffles came from sailing clubs on Cape Cod and Rochester NY.

We are planning on delivering the sails to a small island on the south side of Haiti called Ile La Vache. We have contacts on Ile La Vache. Apparently there are 7 fishermen who are "next on the list". We also have a couple hundred pencils and several hundred crayons and a bunch of notebooks... these destined for the kids at the village school.