Evening Ebb

It's a pretty morning in Annapolis. The creek is calm there are high clouds and the ducks are busy doing what ducks do best.

It looks as though we finally have a window to get the DeMoor Dauntless off the dock, down the bay, and offshore. But as you can see in the forecast map for 6pm next Wednesday, the forecast calls for an area of low pressure to cross the direct course between Cape Hatteras and the BVI. It's not clear, yet, how large this will be or what sort of winds and squalls there'll be, so the current plan is to avoid it and head for Bermuda (the small dot in the upper right corner of the map). We'll let the low pass before turning right and heading south for Tortola in the BVI.

Debbie Clark, is flying in tonight and then Reed and Cal, the owner and his friend, are arriving late Friday. We're planning to cast off the dock lines just after midnight and leave on Saturday the 2nd of May. If all goes according to plan we should be in Bermuda on Wednesday the 6th of May.

Final preparations today: provisions and a last stop at West Marine. Fuel and water tomorrow. It should be fun to see what she can do.

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Vessel Name:	s/v Evening Ebb
Vessel Make/Model:	1979 Pearson 365 Ketch
Hailing Port:	Washington, DC
Extra:	The boat's name comes from a poem by Robinson Jeffers: Evening Ebb The ocean has not been so quiet for a long while; five nightherons Fly shorelong voiceless in the hush of the air Over the calm of an ebb that almost mirrors their wings. The sun has gone down, and the water has gone [...] down From the weed-clad rock, but the distant cloud-wall rises. The ebb whispers. Great cloud-shadows float in the opal water. Through rifts in the screen of the world pale gold gleams, and the evening Star suddenly glides like a flying torch. As if we had not been meant to see her; rehearsing behind The screen of the world for another audience. More