Mental Meanderings
Where the mind dares to wander, the soul must explore.
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106 Miles to Lisbon
Tuesday June 10, 1300 (1:00pm) Bobby and I are in the cockpit of Orion’s Light. We were talking about things sailors talk about while at see in a small boat that has traveled a journey some 3,400 nm. At some point both of us said we are kind of sad, the end is in sight. […]
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Whales
We awoke this morning to what has now become a familiar call of whales. To starboard this time. We have been seeing whales or whale spouts for a couple of days. This morning brother Bob was finishing his 0600 to 0900 watch and I was coming on deck for my watch. We have been motor […]
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Farewell Azores, destination Lisbon
This is going to be jump ahead post. I will find a way and time to post about our time in Horta Faial, and our visit to Pico one of the islands close by Faial. I understand is confusing, inconsistent with the idea of blogging and a habit I need to break. But not today. […]
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A catch up and more
It has been seven days sense my last post. This is an attempt to to catch up so forgive me if I jump around. That being said this has been a wonderful trip. There were a lot of curve balls thrown our way before leaving Marathon. An inoperable bow thruster, a broken radar, balky electronic […]
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Azores Ahead
We started to shake off our ties to Bermuda this morning. We awoke at 0600 and fired up the coffee percolator that will mark the beginning of a string of 0600 am coffees to come. We departed the Hamilton Princess dock at 0700. The wind was blowing us onto the dock and not having a […]
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I could feel the wind calling
It is 0027 Saturday May 10. I was sleeping in the cockpit while Wade was keeping watch. We set up the watch schedule so Wade, Kevin and Andy have 2 hour watches each. I float between watches so I can help and fill in where needed. It is the same schedule I used with most […]
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Crosby Stills Nash & Young
That’s what is playing the stereo. Southern Cross to be specific. It is 2315 Thursday May 8. I am sitting the cockpit of Orion’s light writing this post under the stars. Enjoying an almost perfect night. Almost perfect because we are still under power and sail. We don’t have enough wind to sail without the […]
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Steady as she goes
May 7 2025 1745 hrs We are now in the late afternoon of our second day. We have been averaging around 170nm days. I was hoping for 180 nm days but we stumbled in on a foul current flowing west, slowing us down. When sailing west to east from the US a boat enters the […]
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Good Morning Day Two
As Isla, Mira, Haven, Haley and Brittany say every day “Good morning Mr. Sun”
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Bermuda bound
Today we leave on our second leg of the four legs of our journey. it’s 860 nm to Bermuda which should take around 5 days if the weather is favorable. We have been working on Orion’s Light pretty much sense we arrived at St Augustine April 30. We have been chasing three big problems, more […]