(Image of Hurricane Ivan from 2004 path across the Atlantic, Caribbean and into the Gulf of Mexico)
Jettie was talking to her Mom the other day and she informed her that there was a storm in the Atlantic. We had not been monitoring the weather because we have been loitering around American Yacht Harbor (AYH) and back and forth to Christmas Cove depending on what we need to do. We are back at AYH because our Raymarine Instruments that were removed from the boat and sent to Raymarine to be checked out, have been returned and are to be reinstalled in a few hours as I write this blog. Word has it, that the compass is dying. Our choices are to reinstall it, buy a new one and keep it on hand til the other one completely conks out or buy the new one and install it now, and keep the old one, in case the new one happens to die in between Puerto Rico and the Turks and Cacaos (the only place we would really need everything to be properly working). Given the current one works for a month and then quits, but this last time it refused to be "swung" aka twirled around in circles a slow moving boat to calibrate it back to seeing all directions properly, I think we should go with the latter option. This option will only cost about a third of a BOAT buck - a thousand dollars from the Bring Out Another Thousand definition.
So back to the storm in the Atlantic: NOAA says that the Hurricane Season in the Atlantic starts on June 1st and ends on November 30th. The Eastern Pacific starts on the 15th of May and ends the same time. Well, someone did not get that info out to Ms. Nature. She drummed up a Tropical Storm in the Atlantic on May 19th but Alberto fizzled out in to nothing as of today, 10 days prior to the official start of the season. Given Ms. Nature can be a Mother, is a Mother, our latest discussion is to not to try to out fox her this year, and just head south down the chain of islands to the equator (oh my, I will have to get an air conditioner now!)
But given we are women, we may just change our minds again as we would really like to get the boat back to Texas for a little while. We shall see.