Hi, folks,

As the spot page showed, we basically flew. Major seas made for lots of
motion, but not much bashing. Averaged right at 8 knots, helped immensely
by the clean bottom.

Passage reports after we get settled in. Nice to be back in internet land -
a boat just pulled in next to us after coming from St. Martin, taking much
the same route as we'd planned, but he got out later and his wind died at
the end.

Aside from the leg into Ft. Pierce, and a weird anomaly on Saturday noonish,
where the wind totally died and we got some light rain, we rarely saw less
than 20 knots. Single reef main, and genoa between full and about 70% all
the way, starboard tack until we turned in to Ft. Pierce.

Having the skyline disappear for seconds at a time was interesting from my
6'-above-water perch, and, with all the rock and roll in the early parts, an
extensive running of the fuel polisher pretty much guaranteed that we'd have
fresh fuel when we finally turned on the engine 2/3 of the way into the
channel. About 40 minutes of engine from anchor-hooked to anchor-hooked.
Nice trip, about 480 miles in 60 hours...

Anchored RIGHT out front of the USCG, we'll figure out where and how to
check in soon...

L8R

Skip and crew, thrilled with the trip

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Morgan 461 #2
SV Flying Pig KI4MPC
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"Believe me, my young friend, there is *nothing*-absolutely nothing-half so
much worth doing as simply messing, messing-about-in-boats; messing about in
boats-or *with* boats.

In or out of 'em, it doesn't matter. Nothing seems really to matter, that's
the charm of it.

Whether you get away, or whether you don't; whether you arrive at your
destination or whether you reach somewhere else, or whether you never get
anywhere at all, you're always busy, and you never do anything in
particular; and when you've done it there's always something else to do, and
you can do it if you like, but you'd much better not."

"Skip Gundlach" wrote in message
...
Flying Pig will be taking advantage of an unusually good window to
make our passage to Ft. Pierce, where we'll be on the hard for several
months during family business. You can follow our progress by
clicking tinyurl.com/flyingpigspot, which holds a week's worth of
locations at 10-minute intervals.

We'll initially be going NW from Raccoon Cay to avoid the Cochinas
Banks but staying south enough to avoid the Middle Ground shoals.

From there we'll go directly west over the Great Bahama Bank and pick
up the favorable current in the Hurricane Flats where we'll turn NW
again, riding it until the area near Orange Cay.

From there we'll choose the most favorable wind direction to pick up
the Gulf Stream. Current weather information suggests that it should
be both favorable winds and seas for our travels taking advantage of
the 3-knot-plus lift it can provide.

We'll turn out at Ft. Pierce, or Lake Worth if it's apparent we won't
get to FTP comfortably before dark, anticipated to be on Sunday
afternoon.

Those interested may also catch us before and after we speak with
Chris on 4045.0 SSB, USB at 6:30-7:30AM, other than Sunday, when he's
off.

Fair Winds to all our friends afloat; we'll see the shoreside folks
soon!

L8R

Skip
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Morgan 461 #2
SV Flying Pig KI4MPC
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