The excitement that we felt when we left Mystic, CT on October 26th is mounting in us again. We intend to leave Bermuda tomorrow morning on our second leg of our journey, next stop Lupron in the Dominican Republic. The checklists are humming and so are we. It’s time to change Gypsy and the way we live from harbor mode to passage mode. We won’t be leaving the forward hatch open as we sleep under the stars nor will be able to litter our salon with books and glasses and the usual signs of comfortable living. And we have been living comfortably.
The weather forecast looks good along our track for the next several days but it looked good for our last passage, which turned out to be more science fiction than fact. That’s ok; we’re doing our best planning and preparing for the worst conditions, as any good mariners would do.
We are saying our good-bys to new friends and old. Most of the other boats are headed for St. Martin or the Virgins; we’re the only one we know of that is headed for Dominica. Jack & Marcia will be in port a few more days sorting out some boat issues and waiting for their new rudder quadrant to come in from the states.
If all goes as planned we will up anchor tomorrow morning and commence the seven to eight day, 820 nm journey south.
The weather forecast looks good along our track for the next several days but it looked good for our last passage, which turned out to be more science fiction than fact. That’s ok; we’re doing our best planning and preparing for the worst conditions, as any good mariners would do.
We are saying our good-bys to new friends and old. Most of the other boats are headed for St. Martin or the Virgins; we’re the only one we know of that is headed for Dominica. Jack & Marcia will be in port a few more days sorting out some boat issues and waiting for their new rudder quadrant to come in from the states.
If all goes as planned we will up anchor tomorrow morning and commence the seven to eight day, 820 nm journey south.
Ordnance Island, St George's harbor (center) where customs and immigrations is for yachts.
