No, I’m not talking about NASCAR.
But rather that we’ve been on one tack, literally, since leaving Hampton, VA. We started out on port tack with main, Genoa and staysail. We’ve not had to tack or jib once. Briefly this afternoon we hove to in order to straighten a few things out (like changeover the propane tank since we didn’t have the wit to start the trip with the full tank) and tidy up a few things. But we’ve had NE, ENE and N winds the whole time.
So far the trip has been good without major incident. As of typing this we’ve sailed 697 Nautical Miles (which are 1.2 statute or “land” miles without major incident. As we expected, we’ve had a couple of lumpy and bumpy days, with seas up to 12 feet and winds consistently in the 20’s with some squalls to the 30’s. But no worse than we’ve experienced to date.
We’ve also been learning along the way about some of our Rookie Mistakes, like the propane tank. There are some things we could have/should have done that we didn’t even think about.
Oh well, we know for next time.
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At 11/14/2012 01:03 (utc) our position was 27°50.73’N 070°18.83’W
