While the winds have remained too low to suit our purpose of getting to Bermuda with a large reserve of fuel, today wasn't a total bust. We hoisted the spinnaker for the first time! Winds were almost heavy enough for it. It dragged the boat along at mostly under 4 knots. The motion wasn't great because it wasn't pulling hard enough in the light winds. The spinnaker collapsed and popped periodically over about two hours before we lost hope that the winds would fill in. We went back to the iron genny.
We have motored or motorsailed 24 hours. We have burned about 20 gallons of fuel and have about 140 gallons left. We are 380 miles from Kitchen Shoal.
Just in as this gets typed, the temperature went up several degrees to 81. Gulf Stream entered at 6:32.
Our big meal was early afternoon. Georgette's Lasagna. Fabulous!
06/18/2008
22:39:46 GMT
37° 32.41' N
69° 07.37' W
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