Will
06/23/2009, Horta, Azores

We're off for Cadiz, Spain tomorrow. It should take about a week.

Today Jon, Nick, and Alex went up to the crater of Faial and took a lot of pictures. My Dad and I chose not to go (we wanted to save money). I wish I could've gone, though.

The next blog should come from Spain!!

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Will
06/22/2009, Horta, Azores, Portugal

We made it to the Azores!!! It was an exciteing trip, though nothing really happend that was too exciting. It was just a fun trip.

In the Azores evrything is cheap. Gas is the only expensive thing. about $5.00USD a gal. (3.60 EUR). But we plan to stay here until wednesday. My dad's blog has a more detailed account of our crossing.

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Will
06/07/2009, St. Georges, Bermuda

We made it!! (OK, maybe only part way.) We had intended to go to Hamilton, but the only Customs house is in St. Georges. We hope to leave for the Azores tomorrow morning.

It was a fairly rough ride to get here, though. We had VERY light wind first, then the wind built and we had 25 knots on the beam (With waves. The waves were the wost.). But we made it.

We'll see if the ride to the Azores is as rough. (I hope not!!!) I don't think so, but you never know!!

Location:
N32 22.454
W064 40.476

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Will
05/24/2009, Charleston, SC

The SSB is now working!! We have got it to transmit AND receive! Now we can download weather fax's. That was a big plus. If we couldn't download weather fax's, we couldn't go sailing.

The boat name is being printed (unfortunately we decided just before Memorial Day) now. We'll have that on around Wednesday.

Right now my Dad is have major difficulties with his Pfaff 130 sewing machine as he tries to sew up some lee cloths. (Shouldn't that be done by now???!) Apparently the motor is not functioning properly.

Let me know if you want some pictures. You can e-mail me at nelson.will att live dot com.

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Will
05/21/2009, Charleston, SC

Sorry for the delay in getting a blog up there. As a brief update we are almost done with the navigation system, the SSB is going bungo again, and the refrigerator is pretty much done.

By the SSB going wrong I mean it refuses to transmit. Transmitting is important for other things than "Mayday!" In order to receive a weather fax we have to transmit a request to a nearby SSB station and they can then send us a weather fax. So it's pretty important. We are soon going to move the SSB to a more accessible location.

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Will
05/03/2009, Charleston, SC

We got it installed!!!!!!!!!! (By that I mean we got the SSB installed.) It took some doing but we got it in. Well......almost (of course we would mess up!). We don't know what small problem we have, but we do know that we have a problem. It's just a small problem -- we can't transmit!! Only just a little bit important! Oh, and also the instuction manual does not have any trouble shooting! How odd.

Anyhow, that's the latest news. Everything else has styed pretty much the same. (Thank goodness!)

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