Hi everyone,
At 1200 today we were at 29 58N 077 52W steering 350M, close reaching under full main and single-furled yankee at 5 knots. The haze had cleared and there was barely a cloud in the sky.. The wind was 5G9 from the WNW. Our noon to noon run by the log was 131nm. We'd made about 110nm along our route due to adverse current.
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The adverse current stopped during the morning. Finally we're making decent progress over the ground. And it is a little cooler. Only 33C below this afternoon. The water is still 39C but the air outside is 29C. We're lucky we've had no thunderstorms.
One of the great advantages of Starlink is we can view weather radar sites, for example on windy.com. The E coast of the US has good weather radar which extends well offshore. Right now Georgia is a mass of thunderstorms and they're pushing offshore a little. We're hoping they die away this evening before they reach us.
At about 1400 the wind died further and with boat speed under 3 knots we turned on the engine. We've been motoring since. A SW breeze is meant to appear this evening and give us another day's sailing. Two of our three autopilot rams have died on this passage so far. Both were several years old so I'm not surprised. We're now using an old Raymarine ram. Hopefully it will last!
The autopilot failures have convinced us it'd be wise to end this passage in Morehead City, NC. That's about 260nm north. We can clear-in there and have a rest. And from there it's about a week's day sailing via the Intra-Coastal Waterway (ICW) to the Chesapeake.
Trust all's well where you are.
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