Another barely 100+ mile day. Weird, completely opposite weather from everything you read about the TP. We have 7-10 kt wind directly down the rhumbline, rain squalls without increased wind, rollers coming in from the opposite direction of the breeze…
We’re about to cross the halfway mark from a mileage perspective, and hopefully hit the “normal” wind that will allow us to cover more ground.
We stayed north of the fleet (everyone but several of the cruising class boats). Clearly we wish we hadn’t, but it seemed reasonable at the time.
We heard on the radio that the Hurricane hanging around Hawaii (Cosme) has been downgraded to a tropical storm and should be no factor. But the weatherman also told us that we should be broad reaching in 20kts under blue skies and puffy white clouds right now…
-JE
hang in there. i called in a couple favors and i got some people sending you some more wind.
use this joke if all other pirate jokes have been used more than once…pirate walks into a bar with a paper towel stuck to his pirate hat and orders a bottle a rum…bartender says ‘coming right up but what’s with the paper towel?’…pirate says ‘yaaahhrrrrr…there be bounty on me head.’