Barbados rose up over the horizon and into view at 1:25PM. I’ll be using local time from now on, which is GMT -4 just in case you care. It’s significant to us because it’s been like a countdown clock as we get closer and closer to home. Just a year ago today we were GMT+7, [...]

I woke up this morning as usual for my 6AM shift. A big 4-5 meter swell has rolled in from the N-NNE so we’re on the Slapdash roller coaster again. I went for my morning bow pee and provided naval burial at sea ceremonies on the way for 4 fallen flyers. Everything appeared to be [...]

Today was significant for two reasons. First; it’s the last day of work for my old boss. This is such a big deal that news of the event made it all the way out here to the mid-Atlantic. Back when I had a job Dale got me on my way and was there for all [...]

Getting a little artistic with today’s sunrise shot. Actually that was the last we saw of the sun for most of the morning. A succession of squalls followed which has blotted it out until now, a couple of hours past lunchtime. The squalls were the first we’ve seen on the passage and didn’t amount to [...]

Almost immediately after finishing that last post the wind shifted and wing and wing would no longer work. The wind shifted to an uncooperative angle making it too sharp for wing and wing but not sharp enough for a broad reach. We furled the now useless headsail and when the wind dropped to 6 knots [...]

Although I’ve never tried it, apparently you can tell the temperature by adding 32 to the number of times a cricket chirps in 14 seconds! We still have no way of knowing who is winning the Slapdash trivia contests or even if anyone is playing, but we’re looking forward to finding out once we get [...]