On Aug 2, 7:13*pm, wrote:

Also, as you no doubt noticed, propagation is really lousy, and
as a result, despite over twelve hours of trying, we failed to
succeed in sending yesterday's log until the wee hours of today,
and at that I had to break it up into tiny pieces to be able to
stay connected long enough for any one section to complete.



Humm........ now how reliable is ssb email??



Lydia relieved me about 2AM and I gratefully climbed into our
airy bunk. *It's airy because of the windscoop and the breeze
directly aft of the boat.


YOU sleep with your hatches OPEN while under way with one person on
watch??????~!
I sleep better with no 21"x21" holes in my deck. But I guess comfort
is a more prudent choice.



*I'm sore from all the unaccustomed
exercise I'm getting aboard,


A bit out of shape are you?

By the time I took over at 6:30, we'd had another minor
equipment failure -

The planets are starting to align..........


Well, Lydia's been exhausted, so I did it myself - the pole's
stowed,


So your actually single handed. Humm, lets see 1) 60+ year old guy out
of shape and jurting,2) one old waman not able to do her job, 3) care
taker hubby doing the job of two................

The planets are aligning


That course took us very much more north, and into some
impressive seas and winds. *By 10 AM we were in 15-20 knot
winds, and 8-10' seas.

Good now you can start sailing.


*We were making only 6.5 knots,
apparently against one of the eddy currents shown in the links I
gave as we left, and only 34 degrees north. *However, I added
the staysail at 2PM and that allowed us to turn a little more
into the wind, carrying us back into favorable currents, quickly
upping our speed to 8 knots.


And after doing your Set and Drift calculation you found what??



*So far
it's tough to fault this voyage...

Skip, Lydia, and Portia, the sea cat