March 24
Lee and I celebrated our 11th wedding anniversary today.
We're still sailing along, had the spinnaker up most of the day but now at 6pm we're under main and genoa. Hopefully the wind holds out for the night and we don't have to motor all night. Usually it's particularly light around 3 to 5 am.
We expect to arrive early Monday morning, and at least 2 other boats should be arriving within a few hours of us. I've gotten most of the laundry done over the past 2 days while the wind was light and not too much rolling, but we still have some cleaning up to do of course.
This morning we had no water in the starboard tank, and we had 1/2 a tank last night, so we had to investigate and discovered a hose clamp had rusted through and the water pumped into the bilge. Since we were motoring we didn't hear the pump running during the night. All fixed now and we ran the watermaker....took showers.... I am really glad we got a new watermaker installed before we left Ft. Lauderdale.
Off to sleep for a few hours before watch. 159 miles to go.
Pauline