Last full day at sea....about 90 nautical miles to the dock.
Looking to be an exciting one to start. We are experiencing our heaviest squalls to date. Kim and Mark had to reef the genoa this morning and again as I am writing this. That is the only sail up so it is exciting whether. Full oil skins too. So much for breakfast in the cockpit while sitting on cushions under the awning. The kids are playing in the back room.
While doing some maintenance on our furler in the bow yesterday I found that Big Blue had also broken the stainless tubing on our pulpit so we will need to try and source a welder in Martinique. The good news for us is we have more than enough wind to even dream of using Big Blue to make it in.
It looks like we will be arriving at O'dark thirty and will have to decide weather we want to navigate to the dock or lie off and wait for light. I am hoping we can find our way to the fuel dock and tie up till its light. We will see.
The bird species are different this morning and that is the only indication that we might be approaching land.
Current Position:
12:00 Noon UTC
14 Degrees 23.412 N
59 Degrees 25. 535 W
Course 270 True Speed around 5 kts Wind 10-25 Squally
Heavy squalls some sun Cool only 80 at the nav station
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