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Aspen - Log 25 Wednesday 18 Dec; Our Fleet Report



In the pre-dawn darkness it was a special time today. A time when the full moon had just set and the stars struggled to shine before the beautiful sun blazed away in the eastern sky. The sea had been awake long before and it was once again becoming extremely agitated with the coming of a new day.

I was preparing my fleet report for the admiral. Translated that means I was sitting behind Aspen's wheel, figuring out what to tell Maria about our current conditions as I watched the wind indicator flash 28, 30, 27 knots (that is apparent speed because I never tell Maria the true speed which is much higher as you know. In this case that would have been 34, 36, 33 knots. Maria prefers the smaller numbers I rationalized and besides our speedo quit working long ago to give us true speed anyway). I was also wondering if I had once again put out too much sail this morning, something I foolishly do before the fog of the night lifts from my brain each day.

I can only give my report to Maria since our SSB microphone quit working and we can only receive information and can't broadcast on the radio.Oh well just another thing to help the economy of St. Lucia!

Anyway, I gathered Aspen's information and realized that we have now been at sea for 24 days. This passage is longer than our crossing of the Pacific Ocean from the Galapagos to the Marquesas Islands. That passage took us 23 days and we thought we would never see something like that again! Never say never I guess.

Aspen seems to like carrying just a little too much sail today because she is acting like a racehorse heading for the barn that is 330 nm away on the horizon.

Careful not to dream too soon of what awaits us for time passes very slowly out here on the sea…


Steve and Maria



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