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sy Timoneer

45m luxury ketch-rigged sailing superyacht

March 23, 2004 | Author admin

Tuesday March 24th

Lat: 14′ 13 N

Long: 065′ 30 W Days Run: 271 miles

Course 237’T Speed: 12.2 kts

Wind: 100’T 10kts Weather: Partly cloudy occasional rain showers

Comments:

Timoneer is at sea again, departing Antigua for Curacao and at 11:30 Monday morning in a pouring rain shower. For our entire 10 day stay in Antigua while we were getting the liferafts & MOM’s repacked it has been breezy with intermittent showers. So we were hoping for a broad reach in 20-25kts all the way to Curacao and in anticipation hoisted the full main at the harbor entrance. As we made our course to pass east of the smoking volcano on Montserrat, to our dismay there was no wind at all? I kept saying to myself it will fill in after this rain shower has gone, but it didn’t and we had to furl the main as there wasn’t enough breeze to stop it flogging. As we approached Montserrat it got worse dropping from 7 kts to 2 kts and then going ahead out of the south west??? So much for the trade winds? We skirted the island just to get close enough to see the volcanic slopes of the cone boiling off all the steam from the rain. At least if we couldn’t sail we could fish, off the southern coast of Montserrat, Bevan reeled in a 22lb Mahi – Mahi which was some consolidation for our lack of breeze. The light winds continued throughout the night as we motor sailed with the staysail. By my 06:00 watch the sun was starting to rise although the wind speed rarely reached 10kts. We were pretty much surrounded by rain squalls and as I was putting the fishing lines out Penny spotted a water spout a couple of miles off to port. We watched it for four or five minutes as the funnel from the cloud tried to reach down to the spout on the surface of the water although they never quite joined. The spout dissipated and the cloud eventually down poured rain on us although we had very little extra breeze in it as the wind speed stayed below 20kts. That was pretty much it for this mornings excitement and at noon today we have 233 miles to go and expect to arrive in Curacao tomorrow morning.

John

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