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14 42.30 N 056 01.72 W
Mileage noon to noon :130 nm
Distance to go: 281 nm
Photo: Tom in his sun protection outfit
We had a good night last night with wind from
the northeast at 12 to 15 knots, gusting up to 20 knots in the few rainy squalls
that passed over us. Today is even better. We have 15-20 knots NE,
and we are once again trucking along at 6.5-7 knots. We should be in or
close to Martinique within 2 days at this rate and we are starting to try to
time our approach so that we enter the harbor in daylight. While we have
this good wind, though, we are going for the speed to put the miles behind us,
since Friday may turn out to be a light day.
We no longer have communication with Trudi's
Transatlantic Crossing Maritime Mobile net, since contact is lost after passing
the 50 W longitude because of the way the radio waves skip over the closer
areas. We are in the "skip zone" for the 15 meter band. We
have been trying to check into the Caribbean Maritime Mobile Net on 7241 and
finally made good contact today. All of these nets keep track of our
position and provide good weather reports. It helps to know someone is
following our track and would miss us if something went wrong and we failed to
report in. Trudi and the people who provide relay service for her, Jack,
Owen, and Girard, are so dedicated and helpful and they have made this trip very
enjoyable and safe for us.
We have finally turned our clocks to the local time in
Martinique, which is UTC-3 hours. We are now synchronized with the sun's
rising and setting and are starting to normalize our diurnal cycle. At
10:00 UTC this am, the sun was just rising. We set our clocks back to
local time and it became 7:00 am - much more normal.
We're starting to "smell the barn".
Martinique, here we come.
All's well on board-
Tom, Peg and Garry
s/v Starboard Home
Add: Position of s/v Island Time at 1000 UTC was:14 36 N 47 19
W Island Time's Distance to go at 1000 UTC was: 795 nm
