Wind petered out this morning and was light all night. At 1000 Engineer Deyan fired up the main engine and we are pushing. Weather is perfectly nice, just light winds. Crew are sanding and painting the chart house. Dirk is making a plank for ANN, the 16′ Palmerston Atoll cutter we are restoring. Lists are getting finished for Lunenburg. Sailmaking is ongoing on the quarterdeck. Navigators are still with sextant in hand. Erin is leading lessons in charts and piloting. We bought 700 eggs in Grenada and we are eating them.
Date: May 17, 2019
From: Jost Van Dyke, BVI, West Indies
Towards: St George’s, Bermuda
Noon position: 21°-39′ North Latitude / 063°-27′ West Longitude
Course and speed: SWly at 7.5 knots, motoring along
Wind force and direction: light SEly winds
Seas/swell: steady organized ENEly seas 1 metre
Barometer: 1019 and steady
Sky: sunny, partly cloudy, very nice
Water temperature: 26.5C – 80F
Distance made good in 24 hours: 76 nautical miles
Distance to next port: 639 nautical miles in a straight line. But, of course, we are not sailing in a straight line.