To pass the time during our periods on watch—or even during our off-watch, when we're not catching up on lost sleep—we often immerse ourselves in podcasts, some of which can be quite captivating. They can certainly help take your mind off the mayhem that is ensuing outside in the pitch black.

A few nights ago, we listened to an episode in a new series that painted an unforgettable scene: a man, his wife, and their family journeying through the arid, rugged hills of Lebanon. Their meager belongings loaded onto the family 4x4, their flea bitten donkey. Yet, amidst their challenges, the glimmering views of the azure Mediterranean sparked joy in their hearts, with the enchanting island of Cyprus just a whisper on the horizon.

The narrator goes on to say, “Their adventure is only beginning, and what a remarkable one it is! Over 6,000 miles lie ahead—from the eastern Mediterranean all the way to the shores of the USA!”

“Holy smokes. Six thousand miles!!!”, we thought. “That's what we’re doing, just going the other way.”

Well, we were, until the weather forecast turned grim. Just a day and a half out from the Bahamas the latest GRIBs showed that our already sketchy passage plan was crumbling. While we had hoped to make it to Bermuda on, at worst, a tight teach, it now seemed that about two hundred miles out from St Georges we'd be hard on the wind, until such times as we made landfall, if ever, possibly beating back ‘an furritt for eternity like the Flying Dutchman.

We carefully considered the options and it didn't take long to think, “Sod this.” and we bore away and had a jolly nice downwind skoosh to our old haunt, Beaufort North Carolina.

Tucked up in Beaufort we caught up on some lost sleep and in the evening, the progress of our Lebanese family in the next episode in the Podcast, “Titanic; Ship Of Dreams.”

The family would have paid £8 for a one-way ticket back in 1913! That's the price of an apartment in Stockholm today! And for just £247, you could travel in first class so I’m guessing you’d get a pretty big mansion for that price in today’s money.

Fortunately we are doing it on a slightly smaller budget, although having spent the morning in West Marine I think we are somewhere in the middle. That and we’ve been going crazy in the supermarkets having been somewhat restricted in the Bahamas, “Sorry, no tomatoes until the ship comes in.”

There's a bit of a weather window opening on Wednesday so we will pack up and head out into the oggin once more. However Anne says that perhaps we should find something else to listen to other Titanic

If you are sufficiently motivated, you can follow our progress on https://iphone.predictwind.com/tracking/display/TimeBandit/