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Saturday, July 14. Happy Bastille Day! And Aw a-a-a-a-a-y-y we go!
On Sat, 21 Jul 2007 15:17:41 -0000, Skip Gundlach
wrote: My apologies for the out-of-sequence posting. I was totally blasted from the heat and sleep deprivation (why that was in later posts). The last one will make more sense after this Skip, in all seriousness I would caution you to manage your cruising to avoid sleep deprivation. I've been there and done that, and it will lead to errors in judgement, sometimes serious. We did 4 or 5 all nighters on our trip north last month and on the first one I did not sleep all that well on my off watch. Come morning it was apparent to me that I was not functioning on all cylinders. Even though we were getting a 3 1/2 knot boost from the Gulf Stream and the weather outlook was promising, I made a command decision to alter course for Port Canaveral and get a good night's sleep. It was a tough call at the time, and no doubt cost us some time, but in retrospect I think it was the right decision. It's like reefing - the time to do it is when you first think about it. There are no cruising awards for endurance, and the slip ups stay with us for a long time. |