Thursday, May 10, 2012

Message in a Bottle - After 11 days alone at sea


We have been at sea now for 11 days and have been completely alone out here. We have not seen a peep of anything- only the occasional dolphin, whale, tweeting birds and flying fish that torpedo their way on the boat and sometimes at us in the middle of the night.

So far, we have experienced a very passive ocean. We have encountered some messy seas, some water in the cockpit, a bit of rain and hot sweltering days, but overall, the ocean and the weather have been very mild and nice to us. Almost too nice- we spent the last 2 days barely moving as the winds were too light to keep the sails full. This means we more or less drifted and bobbed around waiting for the wind to pick up. It is a tough thing to experience going as little as 1 mile an hour when you have over 1,800 miles to go…luckily, the winds have picked up this morning and we are sailing at a whopping average of 5 miles an hour which is actually a very good speed for us. Fingers crossed that this keeps up.

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