Friday, 29 August 2008
NOON POSITION : 40 29’ N 071 30’ W
COURSE: 190 degrees
SPEED: 11.4 knots
DAYS RUN : 56 miles since departure
WEATHER: Flat calm!
NEWS:
We travelled from Nantucket to Newport yesterday and then fuelled up late yesterday afternoon for the pending trip south to Savannah, a distance of just less than 800 miles.
We had another early start this morning in Newport and managed to leave the dock at 0640 straight into a fine and beautiful day. These conditions have continued, the sun is shining with few clouds in the sky, the light breeze that we had earlier has now died altogether and the sea is glassy calm. We are making good progress, we have the fishing lines out, and we expect to arrive in Savannah on Monday morning – Labour Day. We will start work on the fire damage first thing on Tuesday morning and expect to be in the yard until second half of November.
All is well on board and most systems are working. We are being really careful with out water supply as we lost the water makers in the fire so have to rely on the water tank supply.
PW