Onto Bermuda..

Finally getting around to the &Blog&, that I promised to keep.

After fueling up, we casted off our lines in Stuart Florida at 1:30 and motored north on the ICW to the inlet at Fort Pierce. Motored thru the inlet around 6:30 - rough 1/2 mile passage as we had strong winds against tide, with breaking waves sometimes slowing us down to 2 knots. Finally around 7:30 turned north, set sail and rode the gulf stream for 1 1/2 days, then turning east towards Bermuda -

Our first sunset motor sailing east.

We spent the next couple of days sailing east - doing a little north also, but tried to stay under 29 degrees latitude, advised to us by our weather router. Glad we did as we saw lots of lightning, squalls and thunder north of us.

Another sunset at sea.

5/11  sailed and motored hot and humid

5/12 changed course to 90, first squall hit us at 11:00 PM, got us all awake and  drilled to reef our sails

5/13 lighning to north sailed/motored. Someone left a post galley window opened and about 20 gallons of sea water poured around 6pm.

My sea berth 

5/14 - got hit by 3 squalls tonight - winds recorded up to 42Knots- reefed main only. All 3 of us on deck. Lasted a good 2 hours. We three ended up having a 24 hours day

5/14 -  3am ran out of fuel- bleed system in daylight. 6:30 fuel lines bleed motor running again, engined died again - 9:00, changed primary filter- lots of gunk from empty/ tank. Decided to keep better records of engine hours/fuel consumption.

12:40 water tanks dry ---turned on water maker to make sure we have fresh water.

5/15 2 am started engine  - motoring for all day so far, cloudy but cool with no storms .

5/16 - wind picking up able to do some nice sailing - 6.5 - 7 knots. Sighted Gibbs lighthouse on Bermuda around 11:00  pm.

5/17 - made landfall around 8 am in St. Georges Harbour, had toanchor out and await sace on the customs dock.

Another sea view...