Sunday May 18 12.40 UTC: Ship' time (Bermuda)09.40 3250N 62.15W winds N 15 Partly Sunny 7+kts COG 065T
The half dozen boats that left yesterday morning before our departure at 13.30 are all now astern! After 5 hours we caught up with the first one - a Swiss flagged Amel 53 - at 18.05 and three hours later his light was barely visible astern. Adventuress is a speedster and we continue to be surprised how well she sails in 10 to 12 kts of breeze. During the night we passed four other boats - variety unknown. Now we have a bit more wind, and so far we certainly timed our departure just right. Looks like we will see the winds continue to veer N to NW to WNW and on those we will head up some more to reach 36 or 37 degrees N. Then the forecast is for a switch to SW. No big winds are in the forecast, and we may be able to fly our big "balloon" gennaker if the seas are not too bumpy to upset the sail.
The SSB is working well and we just downloaded wx "grib" files for tomorrow and Tuesday: we picked up a strong signal to a shoreside station 'VE1YZ' 953nm north of us in St Margaret's Bay Nova Scotia.
Nancy made us an outstanding Lanco Meat Loaf for dinner on Friday our last night in port; so we devoured meatloaf sandwiches for lunch yesterday: and for dinner the Wahoo came with a glaze of apricot mayonnaise butter with sauteed garlic shallots and onion. Two feasts in one day out on the ocean! Tonight will be the traditional first night Coq au Vin, which got bumped out by the Wahoo.
We are not yet fishing - not much room in the freezer with all that Wahoo in it.
Best from four happy sailors: Nancy and John with Bob and Dave
In 2014 Adventuress sailed to Europe. She made landfall in Muxia Spain; then England. After cruising the English South Coast, and the Channel Islands, she wintered at Woodbridge, England. The next three summers we cruised England, Holland, Norway, Denmark, France, Spain, Portugal, and Gibraltar. For the foreseeable future Adventuress will sail in Europe. UPDATE: it's October 2021 and we are sailing her back to the USA: Transat passage will be Nov/Dec: expect to be in Florida end of January.
