17 May 2009 | 'N: 'W, Camden ME
13 May 2009 | 41 29'N:71 09'W, Newport RI
12 May 2009 | 41 29'N:71 09'W, Newport RI
10 May 2009 | 38 58'N:69 12'W,
28 April 2009 | 24 52'N:65 22'W, 450 miles from Bermuda
26 April 2009 | 20 32'N:65 01'W, 135 miles north of St. Thomas
25 April 2009 | 18 20'N:64 57'W, Crown Bay Marina St. Thomas, USVI
16 April 2009 | 34 50'N:66 44'W,
14 April 2009 | N 'N:W 'E, Bermuda
10 April 2009 | 'N: 'W, Bermuda
09 April 2009 | 31 56'N:64 40'W, 40 miles from Bermuda
07 April 2009 | 28 01'N:65 06'W, 263 miles from Bermuda
07 April 2009 | 18 19'N:64 43'W, Great Lameshure, St. John, USVI
04 April 2009 | 18 42'N:64 42'W, Coral Harbor, St. John
26 March 2009 | 00 N'N:W E'E, English Harbor, Nevis, St. Kitts, and Jolly Harbor
25 March 2009 | 00 N'N:W E'E, St. Martin
19 March 2009 | 00 N'N:W 'E, Nevis and St. Kitts
17 March 2009 | 00'N: 'W, Nevis, West Indies
11 March 2009 | 17 00'N:61 45'W, Antigua
10 March 2009 | 17 03'N:60 32'W, 72 miles to go
Close Encounters
02 June 2008 | 42 47'N:55 11'W, 200 miles from the tail of the Grand Banks
Tom
Greetings to our readers, Yesterday we covered about 157 miles on a beam reach with two or three reefs and a full jib. Lily,after our good friend Lily Conover, has been given to our Monitor windvane, and she has been doing an excellent job steering us with only a few minor adjustments; steady and concientious like her namesake. I am not going to spend much time on our position or speed as you should be able to judge this for yoursleves thanks to Ben and SPOT. The big news of yesterday was a visit from the Frenchman Loick Peron who is returning to France on his 42nd transatlantic crossing after winning his third OSTAR race with an Open 60. He sailed by us to leeward at 16 knots, and he did not take up our offer to share a bottle of wine from California, beause he needed his sleep and to get back to France. During Pat's afternoon watch, he watched a fin circle our boat and then thud there as the soft crush of animal against Flash of Beauty and then a dazed and confused dark body swam off to leeward. On Rachel's morning watch, we had a more solid crash. This time it was with a massive tree trunck/log. Rachel was below deck making her father a bagel, but she stuck her head out to see the log. No leaks or cracks that we can tell as of yet.
We are settling into the daily routine. Rachel and I have been doing most, no all of the cooking since Pat wants to save his expertise when we have consumed or disposed all the fresh and frozen food. He then claims he is a maestro with the can openner. We are standing three four hour watches during the day from 8:00 am to 8:00 pm. We then switch to four three hour watches for the evening. This scedule rotates us through all the watches every three days, andit seems to be working well. That all for now from the Flash of Beauty