THE FINAL BEAT TO BERMUDA

We are on what we think will be the final leg of our ocean voyage, before we begin navigating around the northeast corner of Bermuda, heading for Town Cut and the Customs Dock. We are motorsailing, beating into three foot waves. It has been a great day. We have made good progress. There was rain, but no weather that we had to change course for. It was another day of sails out, sails reefed, sails in, then do it over again.

About six hours from now we will check in with Bermuda Harbor Radio, who will have already begun watching us on radar. They will control our entry into St Georges Harbor. If we arrive before 08:00 they will quarantine us in an anchorage until Customs opens.

Once we land it looks like we will have purely sailed about 40% of the time, motorsailed 55%, and motored 5%. We recognize we could have purely sailed an even greater percentage of time. Seasoned by the passage over, this crew likely will enjoy more motor off time on the passage back.

Look for the pictures once we get near high speed internet service!

06/20/2008
22:02:38 GMT
33° 33.56' N
65° 28.26' W