wind started coming up at about the time I relieved Frank (6 AM) and then
died again. It rose enough to set the Parasailor at about 9 AM and pretty
quickly got up to 18-20 knots. We struggled to control the Parasailor for
for a couple of hours and then gave up at about 11 AM, took it down and
sailed with regular sails for the rest of the day. We've had good wind and
made a lot of progress today. Just passed the latitude of Cape Hatteras
and we have 373 miles to go. Winds are predicted to be 15-20 knots from
the SW for the rest of the trip - just right. We're supposed to start
crossing the Gulf Stream at about midnight tonight. It's running pretty
hard (3-4 knots) to the east, so it won't help us much, but at least it's
running in the same direction as the wind so we won't have a rough
crossing.
We just did the arrival time pool. In order of optimism to pessimism, the
arrival estimates for 5/28/11 are:
Dan 3:15 AM
Nick Jr 3:37 AM
Adam 4:45 AM
Nick Sr 6:30 AM
Frank Noon
My money's on Frank or me.
No more fuel worries. I think we have enough diesel left to motor from
here to Newport if we had to, which seems very unlikely.
Tried to load a new chip into the Raymarine chartplotter so we will have
detailed charts for Newport, but although it works fine in the card reader
on my computer, it doesn't work on the chartplotter. I suspect the 5 year
old chartplotter probably needs a software update. Meanwhile we'll have to
come in the old fashioned way with paper charts.
Everything's fine here and we can smell the barn.
Nick 5/25/11 @ 6:30 PM
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