Off we go
Moorglade's Voyage
Ted Wilson
Sun 16 Jun 2013 16:10
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Our Position
is
40:17.41N 68:59.55W
Sunday 16th June
Distance logged in last 27.5
hours
162Nm
Distance to Flores
Azores.
1726Nm
Weather and Seastate Midday
Sunny, 20.5C, light SW wind , Sea small waves,
no swell.
Our decision to postpone departure seems to have
been a good one. We left the town dock in Marion at 8:30 in lovely weather,
after loading the last minute stores, mainly frozen but also treats of cake
and cookies. The send off party on the dock of Travis, Mauna and Chris and
Veronique Bale let go our lines and we were off, all be it slowly under engine.
down the harbour Julius and Mette Feinlieb in Idunn
motored with us up the harbour with Mette waving and photographing from the
foredeck. Then Les Dole came by in his dinghy shouting his well wishes. But this
was not to be the end of the goodbyes as when we passed Converse Point there was
more waving of white hankies. Actually one of them could have been a bed sheet,
well at least a tea towel.
The morning wind was fickle so the engine helped as
we went down Buzzards Bay through Quicks Hole and round Gay Head Light on
Martha's Vineyard and passed Nomansland to the Atlantic.
Things seem to settle well and the easy conditions
allowed us to investigate our only problem, the log, which refused to perform.
Attempts to fix it even replacing the sender unit with our spare were to no
avail so we will have to rely on GPS.
The engine could be dispensed with after lunch in
favour of close reaching with the Aries steering. Watches were established, 3 on
6 off , which rotate nicely with three watchkeepers.
The night, though a chilly 16C passed without
incident with only a couple of fishing boats and a freighter to
report.
This morning is bright and sunny with the temp now
a respectable 20C. The ships on route to New York and Baltimore are now passing
well behind us only seen on the AIS. The only interest coming from a brief but
certain whale sighting.
At 8:30 this morning we had coved the first 140Nm
which were happy with.
If the rest of the trip is like this then will have
the boring trip Julius wished for us. Of course that is not going to
happen.
PS Tom. The iPod arrived in time so I'm looking
forward to some Dylan's Theme Time Hour. He did a similar but
different show for BBC Radio 2 later.
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