Archive for March, 2008
Friday, March 21st, 2008
Padma enroute to Cuba
We’ve changed our plans somewhat. Instead of waiting for a weather window to get all the way around the south coast of Cuba, we decided to head straight down from here to Puerto Vita on the North Coast of Cuba. The weather has been terrible, and with 360 miles to go before we even get [...]
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Wednesday, March 19th, 2008
Long Island
There was literally no wind on our way to Clarence Town, Long Island from Georgetown. We motored the entire 73 miles under a sliver of a moon for part of the way before it set leaving us in inky blackness the rest of the way. We tried to conserve a little fuel, this time running [...]
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Monday, March 10th, 2008
Hitting the High Seas
While I have a little internet…after waiting out a lot of bad weather here in Georgetown, it looks like we finally have a window for us to get to Clarencetown on Long Island. There are two beautiful, hurricane-proof churches built by Father Jerome — an architect and priest — which we’re looking foward to checking [...]
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Thursday, March 6th, 2008
Crisis, What Crisis?
People have written me asking what we do on the boat with all of our free time. Well to be honest, I wish we did have that free time. In fact, we’ve had so little time off of the boat that we haven’t really interacted with the local culture as much as I’d like that’s [...]
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Sunday, March 2nd, 2008
SSB E-mail
Our SSB email is finally working. Chris placed four more strips of copper foil, and tied them into the brass thru-hulls. That extra foil seemed to do the trick for us, and we didn’t even need the fancy counterpoise. For those who are interested, this is our setup: We have an Icom 802, a Pactor [...]
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Saturday, March 1st, 2008
Georgetown
We made it to Georgetown a couple of days ago, ahead of schedule, so that we could get adequate shelter from a cold front moving in. Good thing, as it was quite a strong one with 25-knot winds, gusting to 30 or 35. Just before the onset of the cold front, a nasty line squall [...]