THURSDAY 16TH APRIL 2009
Timoneer left St Maarten this morning, at the 11 am bridge opening. We did the last of our pre-voyage safety drills, a man-overboard drill, in Simpson Bay. We are now on our way towards Thunderbolt, Savannah.
We have very light south easterly winds, so for the moment we are just motoring with no sail set. That may change as we get clear of the land.
For our arrival in the US we now have to give 96 hours notice, which is quite hard to do on a sailing yacht. We have declared our arrival at the sea-buoy off the entrance to the river to be 0630 on the 23rd of April. Let’s hope we can keep to that schedule. We have mainly light winds forecast, but a spell of stronger headwinds for the weekend.
John