I guess was inevitable that we'd spend some significant time motoring on a passage this long. The wind died down to about 5 knots from the south last night, all but useless for driving the boat so we've been under power for the last 18 hours with no real end in sight. However, it looks like we've picked up the Gulf Stream so we're making pretty good progress and we should arrive some time tomorrow. We're about 110 miles from the mouth of the Cape Fear River but we are probably going another 11 miles up the coast into Masonboro Inlet to clear in at Wrightville Beach and then back down the ICW to Carolina Beach where Christian's house is.

About two hours after my last post, the wind came. We ended up close hauled with the genoa and main reefed doing 8.5 knots. Not bad!

Well, it was bound to happen....no wind.:( When we got up this morning there wasn't a breath and now at 1pm it picking up a bit, ENE at 6 knots. Not enough to make any significant headway so we're motoring. I had hoped we'd do the entire passage without any real motoring and we may yet get enough wind to start sailing again later today. At least there's a nice breeze across the deck, the sky is clear and the sea is nearly flat. Could be a lot worse and this is a good speed for fishing so we've a line out. Maybe Mahi Mahi for dinner....

I just got a look at the blog (can't read it underway) and noticed that it's not sending position data. This post updates that and hopefully, future posts will include this information.

We anchored in Marsh Harbor, Great Aboco Island around mid-day. Went into town for a nice lunch and raced a nasty squall back to the boat. It's a well known fact that if you leave any hatches or port lights open and leave the boat, it actually causes rain to fall. This time we beat it. We dragged a bit and so did several other boats but we seem to be nailed down pretty good now. We're going into town to watch the playoffs again and will probably stay here and provision for the trip to Wilmington in a couple of days.

We left Nassau early this afternoon. The forecast was for 5 to 10 knots from the SE, we didn't get any wind until we were about 10 miles offshore. Now we have exactly that so we stopped motoring and put up the spinnaker. Now we making 5.4 knots from the 5-10 actual knots of wind. I just LOVE this [...]