Things are changing
07 March 2016 | 10 31.202s:18 50.061w
Bill/sunny and a bit of wind
First of all, my thanks to all of you that sent me emails about our posts or the lack of them. It took a couple of emails to Sailblogs to get it straightened out. Ended up that our posts were going into a developers site called "X Journal" instead of Sailblogs. Once that was fixed, they posted the missing posts so all should be up to date. This morning started out with us gybing again to put us back on a better course for the Caribbean. We need to find the best place to cross the ITCZ to get as few storms as possible. We've been lucky so far that every time we have crossed it in the past there have been few storms. Now we are on a heading of about 305T doing just Four knots. Only about ten knots of wind. At least we are going in the right direction. Since the Sun was now coming up after 0700 and setting about 1930,we set about changing our time zone. We are now at UTC-1 hour after quite a long time at UTC or Grenich Mean Time. Now the Sun will be coming up about 0630 and setting about 1840. Tracy will be getting her first nap after the Sun goes down. In the past, the Atlantic Cruisers Radio Net was on at 1900 and since I was on the radio checking in, Tracy was stuck in the cockpit just in case something to eat wrong. Now, the net will be over and she can get to bed on time. After a nice lunch of a tomato noodle casserole left over, I took out the SD card in the B & G Vulcan chart plotter that was running Navionics programs and stuck in our new chart chip that will switch the program to a Jeppesen chart program. We purchased it while in South Africa and can now put it in the plotter even though we are out in an area of the Atlantic Ocean that's not covered by any chart. It was the same with the Navionics program. I guess since there is nothing out here to hit, there is no reason to chart it. All the sails are doing fine and the chafe guards I put on the genoa sheets look like they are riding right where they are supposed to on the spinnaker pole. We'll be checkingure later. That's what you see in today's picture.