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Day 5 Still alive
11 May 2010 | The boat
Rodney
A front passed over us last night around 8pm bringing driving rain and 25 to 35 knot gusts. Too much wind can be very nice if it is coming from behind you. Unfortunately for us the wind was coming straight from Bermuda. I just had a flashback from when Jane and I tried to make it to Moorea near Tahiti in similar conditions in 1997. The catamaran is a great boat for reaching and going down wind - not so good at short tacking.
Luckily we expected this wind direction so we went about 80 miles past Bermuda to put some money in the bank. The weather file said there would be only 15 knots of wind though. So we have given back all of our 80 mile and then some. We are hoping to sail southwest of Bermuda and then start motoring straight at the island. Our weather file also says the wind should die again tonight so this plan should work.
We had a little stow-away land on the boat yesterday around 6pm. A small land-based bird - even though we were 190 miles from Bermuda! We thought it was kind of cute for a while. Then he flew inside the boat. After several unsuccessful attempts to make him leave we just let him stay. Do you know how animals get right before an earthquake hits - well that happened at 8pm - so our little friend was just a survivor. He stayed with us for most of the night and then left us a present and flew on.