Day 171 - Making Repairs and Dolphins!

Bob reported in at 10:12 A.M. this morning from 34º 37.140' N and 68º 49.063' W travelling at a course of 80ºTrue and a speed of 3.7 kts. The winds were calm at 5-10 kts. They were sailing a close reach under Big Blue  (the new light weather 'reacher' sail...my vote was to name it Jack) and full main.

Bob writes:

Yesterday Grandpa and I got a lot of things repaired and worked out the arrangement for setting our new sail (Big Blue).

We sailed big blue all night and hit speeds over 7.5 kts through the water. 

We are running the Honda generator this morning but the new wind generator has gotten us three full days of sailing.  The new  wind generator is very quiet and does a great job.  We have to do an adjustment on the tripod because the 30 kt storm we were in in the gulf stream pushed it over a bit.  Fortunately we caught it before any damage was done.

We fixed the furler and luckily have enough new line so it is good again.  The dingy slid over and caused the problem which is probably what happened to us on our trip from Green Turtle.  We re-tied the dingy a better way and found that we can put a lock on the furler when it is reefed so that we can leave the line slack.  Should be a better arrangement.

A pod of eight little dolphins came to see Grandpa and I while we were working on the bow yesterday.  It was really fun.  They stayed with us for 10 minutes or so.

We are going to try and download weather today.  We see a nasty front coming and are trying to get an update.  I am projecting that we will be somewhere plus or minus 35.19 N by 61.34 W on Saturday.  Any advice from passage weather would be gladly accepted.