(see http://www.findu.com/cgi-bin/winlink.cgi?KG4EYP for latest position)

It's a good thing we're not being tracked real-time by a satellite, because our track winds around like a drunken snake. One weather forecast scared us into thinking we might get some strong northeast winds, headwinds that would also whip up the Gulf Stream, so we started angling off back toward the coast, ready to bail and head in. Then we got a few squalls - none of them actually on the boat, but we could see them on radar, and we zigged and zagged to avoid them.

Then another forecast implied that (as we'd originally expected) we'd be north of the area of northeast winds, and that the winds would be such that we could sail. Of course, when the winds are exasperatingly light (or from the wrong direction, either directly in front of us or directly behind) and we're motoring, either bashing into waves or wallowing in the swell, heading back to take the ICW seems more attractive. (Last night we did a lot of wallowing. Not easy to sleep when your bed rocks
like a cradle - I don't understand how babies manage!)

Anyway, now we are sailing back toward the Gulf Stream, trying to get current again. (And kicking ourselves for having left it!)
- posted by S/V Windom @ 6/16/2007 [link]