Tuesday, March 17, 2009

Weather forcasts indeed


The weather forecasts we received were always a bit milder than those we actually experienced but the boat and crew were ready and able. There was never any danger but for some reason it seemed to get a bit worse as darkness came. We started to log ‘bell ringer’ waves – when the boat hit a wave hard, the fog bell installed in the cockpit would ring itself! We had many during the night and virtually none after early morning so we know it was not our imagination.

The moon was on a full cycle and came up an hour later each night. On the last night that David and I had the 8 PM to 12 AM and 4 AM to 8 AM watch (the hated one) we watched the moon rise for 15 to 20 minutes…it was beautiful.

Also because it rose late we got to see a gazillion stars and one meteor (David saw it but I had my back turned.) It was a particularly raucous night and we saw 9.3 knots (hull speed) on our meter before it was over.

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