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Time Warp - Day 8 -- The Atlantic "It's Not a Race" Rally for Cruisers
Time Warp - Day 8 -- The Atlantic "It's Not a Race" Rally for Cruisers
It's not a race. It's snot!! :-)
Well, here we are hung out to dry. We are the southernmost (and most likely easternmost) boat of the 169 boats in the cruising division of this year's ARC. We will either end up being heroes or zeroes. Right now it looks more like the latter! We are where everyone wants to be. Yet if they knew what we know, they wouldn't want to be here!
See, the wind has died to a paltry 3-8k. And sailor's ain't happy unless (until) they are sailing! Worse, the forecast is for less wind tomorrow! Meanwhile, our competition in this 'rally' are up north. I don't know what they have for wind, but it has to be better than this! So as you can tell, Day 8 will be a test of our mettle. We put a plan together, we are executing the plan, and now it is time to wait and see what the good Lord serves up.
There is a long way to go still, and the northern boats still have to come down to our latitude. But the leaders are racking up miles on us; miles that will be increasingly difficult to recover. So for now we bide our time and wait for the tradewinds to carry us to St. Lucia.
We are all having a good time aboard. We listen to music, read books, trim and steer, run up to the foredeck to watch the latest pod of dolphins and (in my case) teach Will World History as his schooling continues. Elise has done a great job with the food -- even in spite of the food snafu.
You see, in Las Palmas we went to the expensive grocery store because I figured they would have the best service and selection. Well, they certainly had the best selection. But their service was horrific. The food that was finally delivered (in 3 different batches was about 80% of what we ordered! The other 20% must be somewhere on a German boat in the middle of the Atlantic right now as we are trying to figure out what to do with all the lamb and pork that got delivered, but none of the cheese!! Not to worry. We have so many canned tins (and wine!!) that we have enough food (and water) to last another 3 weeks or more. Hmmm...we may need it all if this wind doesn't pick up soon! :-)
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