Adventures at Sea

An amazing day of sailing today. Starting at the Statue of Liberty up the East River through the city. We reached the along Island sound with 10-20 knots of breeze south. Boat speed was 8-15 knots making the 80 miles up the sound exciting. Beautiful seaside homes and scenery.

30 May 2020 | Long Island Sound

NYC to Orient NY

28 May 2020

New York Here we are!!

Left Atlantic City early morning and had excellent wind out of the south at 10-15 knots. We covered 93 miles in 11 hours top speed was 16.6 knots. Fun sailing and glad to be in NYC. We blew up the spinnaker halyard and shrimped the code zero 18 miles from the city. Came in with the blast reacher doing 9-14 knots. Spotty fog but great to get ihete before dark.

New York Here we are!!

Foggy motor sailing

Two days of mostly motoring with some sailing. Lots of fog with less than 200 yards visibility. Rather chilly and wet the wind chill was in the 50’s. Burr!!!

27 May 2020 | Approaching Atlantic City NJ

Foggy motor sailing

Two days of mostly motoring with some sailing. Lots of fog with less than 200 yards visibility. Rather chilly and wet the wind chill was in the 50’s. Burr!!!

Traffic

15 May 2019

Last night we had three vessels in our company. Two large commercial vessel that passed several miles away. There was our first sail boat a French sailor on a 33 foot sloop making about half our speed 5 knots. They had a reefed main and a jib sailing wing on wing They passed behind us less by less than a 400 yards.

We still are on Starboard and we are getting closer to the high pressure system as the wind is blowing 13-16 knots. We are still able to maintain 10 knots of boat speed. Based on the weather routing data we will need to jibe on to port sometime today. Probably when everyone is up after breakfast.

We are 930 miles from Horta and continue to sail 270 miles a day. We will likely arrive Sunday..

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