Day 175 - Settling in

Although we have been warned not to expect a daily email, we anxiously await it each day. We quickly pass the message onto Grandma in New York and then Anna plots the Midwatch position on a paper chart. I continue to carefully watch passageweather and it looks like they will be getting some much calmer weather in the coming days. Hopefully they will not get too much east wind. I have been plotting their position on Google earth as well and yesterday's position put them at exactly 1,000 statute miles into their approximately 2,700 mile trip.

Hi everyone,

Well, we beat the front …we think.

We still haven't worked out the time thing (time zone) yet.  Grandpa says I missed the sign on my watch.  He is now reading Longitude and starting to whittle clock parts out of various wood scraps found around the boat.  The other problem we have is that Scott and Lisa's fancy machine ends its weather data capabilities at this longitude so it just stopped giving us info for points east of here.  Grandpa has grown very attached to the machine and thinks that because the screen is blank to the east of us that maybe that's the edge of the earth.  He says he is going to throw the anchor over to stop us.  Of-course it is almost 17,000 feet deep here so not sure it will prevent us from slipping off the edge.

Struggling to cook....been pretty rough, managed Nachos today.  Cereal has been the biggest hit but we are nearly out of milk.  Yesterday was the first day that we didn't see any boats or planes.  We did see a jet trail but Grandpa says that doesn't count. About the only thing we have seen is some type of sea bird that we will need Anna to research.  I will try and get a picture one of these days.  Oh and lots of Portuguese man o wars.

Days have been sunny and warm...nights cool and clammy.

Water is infiltrating everywhere I look.  The decks are nearly always awash so it seems to work its way in.  Not bad, but annoying nonetheless.  Days are comfortable, nights are long and uncomfortable.  No problem sleeping as we are nearly always exhausted.  Hoping a bit calmer weather in the future will allow us to live a bit more comfortably.

We think we are making good time so far.  Can't imagine if we had tried to stop in Bermuda...would have held us up a week.

Until next time,

Love Dad and Grandpa