Excellent shots..... you should see the photos from my friend's trip....
they show an entirely different mood of the North Atlantic.

CM
"John Cairns" wrote in message
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| Yeah, we got plugged badly on at least several occasions, amazing how
| incredibly annoying it can be when you're driving and it happens. I
couldn't
| imagine this passage on a smaller boat, but the distance from Halifax is
| considerably less than that from Lauderdale. Funny, the skipper mentioned
| that some folks consider a May crossing to be slightly early, but it's all
a
| crap shoot, I don't think we had more than 25 kts on more than several
| occasions and I'd guess that the average was probably 10-15kts. BTW, we
| carried about 115 gallons of diesel and used just about all of it to get
to
| Horta, the winds to Portugal were so poor that we ended up using about
100
| just to make that last 900nm !
| http://community.webshots.com/album/151748323ulmDJf
|
| John Cairns
|
| "Capt. Mooron" wrote in message
| ...
| Malo!! I'm waiting for the pics John..... my friend did a trip across
in
| June 2000 from Halifax - Horta - Portugal [don't recall the port].....
in
| a
| Bayfield 29. They encountered lots of wind and went through a storm
with
| 56
| knots just a day before making landfall in the Azores. How was it
playing
| the eddies in the stream? Did you encounter the dreaded "Cornholius
| Effect"
| ??? ;-)
|
| CM
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