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Flying Pig - Maine Passage - Day 1
[This message forwarded from their sailmail status report.]
Day 1 - Maine Passage We left in a drizzle early Monday evening, on the outgoing tide, from Fernandina Beach. An hour later, we'd turned off the engine and commence sailing, for real. While under way, we had a chicken breast cut up in a salad. Not by design, we're sort of dieting on this trip, and while calorically lean, it was still delicious! Our sail plan, despite the very light winds forecast, was a single reef in the mainsail, and the genoa out completely. Our main has three reefs, all very deep. The first takes out about three feet of the bottom, a significant reduction, so even if we were to experience a lot of wind, we'd be able to comfortably sail with no adjustments. However, NOAA got it right, and we ghosted along under a south wind. I went down for a nap at 10 as Lydia stood her first watch. By 2, when she came to get me, it was up to 15 knots with brilliantly clear skies, and we were moving along very nicely in 10-15 knots, making good 83 degrees, just about perfect for our plan. By 4, however, the wind had dropped to 6-10 knots, and we were rolling quite a bit due to the swell, so I turned south a bit to stabilize the boat with more pressure on the sails, even though it was a bit out of our way to do so. I finally gave up and dropped the sails altogether at 8AM, still 15 miles from the western edge of the Gulf Stream. Lydia relieved me for a while, and I went below for more sleep. That's honoring our plan to never turn on the engine unless absolutely necessary, and that every time someone goes off watch they go to bed, whether they can sleep or not. That assures the most amount of rest possible. Lydia came to wake me again at 11, saying that the wind had finally picked up to where it was 8-9 most of the time; out come the sails again! However, as we were not yet in the Gulf Stream, we potted along at 4 knots or less, still rocking and rolling, but not so badly. Fortunately, our attention was diverted when, at 2:30, I landed and filleted a 36" lady Dorado. I turned the boat south, again, to stiffen it up, as filleting on a rolling platform made for concern with sharp knives! Despite that being three meals for the two of us, I threw out the hook again and nearly immediately brought in a 36" King Mackerel, immediately filleting it, too. Lydia went below with both to apply the marinades... Fresh fish tonight! Between 4 and 6, we crossed the outer boundary of the Gulf Stream simultaneously with a slight pickup in the wind, as well as more calm waters. So, for the last couple of hours, we've been very comfortably (little rolling) making 7 knots with only 7 knots of wind, and our course over ground - high 40s - is over 40 degrees less than the angle we're sailing. Good thing, too, because if we had to sail the wind, it would be directly behind us, and very light. That's not quite good enough to keep us in the path in the middle of the Stream, but since we're not there yet, anyway, it's fine. We love the progress, and the lift provided. For a long while, we may get as much as 4 knots of assistance from the Gulf Stream as we head north. So, smacking our lips over the marvelous Mahi-Mahi over salad we had, we'll close for tonight. We're presuming our SPOT is sending out our "OK" messages as well as keeping a lovely track as we go... L8R Skip, Lydia and Portia Morgan 461 #2 SV Flying Pig KI4MPC See our galleries at www.justpickone.org/skip/gallery ! Follow us at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TheFlyingPigLog and/or http://groups.google.com/group/flyingpiglog "You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. You may have to work for it however." (and) "There is no such thing as a problem without a gift for you in its hands. You seek problems because you need their gifts." (Richard Bach, in The Reluctant Messiah) |
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Flying Pig - Maine Passage - Day 1
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@m44g2000hsc.googlegroups.com: We're presuming our SPOT is sending out our "OK" messages as well as keeping a lovely track as we go... Got your fix of 4 minutes ago off Harker's Island, NC....Lookin' good! NOONE is going to lose weight eating Flying Pig food. Having eaten several meals aboard of Lydia's cooking, I can directly attest to it. Simply impossible without wiring a jaw shut....(c; http://share.findmespot.com/shared/f...ots.jsp?&glId= 0sKGa9AJRCF45FaX5L5g6PLcZGvSb3nMe or http://tinyurl.com/6c6w8q |
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Flying Pig - Maine Passage - Day 1
On Wed, 30 Jul 2008 06:47:07 -0700 (PDT), wrote:
So, smacking our lips over the marvelous Mahi-Mahi over salad we had, we'll close for tonight. We're presuming our SPOT is sending out our "OK" messages as well as keeping a lovely track as we go... L8R Skip, Lydia and Portia Nasty weather coming up starting late in the day, August 4: https://www.fnmoc.navy.mil/ww3_cgi/c...d=sig_w av_ht or http://tinyurl.com/5fxjzy |
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