Wednesday, November 3, 2010

Sail to the Solomons

We left Annapolis around 8:30 after a stop at the fuel dock. We motored out into the Chesapeake and around 10 AM raised the sails. I was please to see us doing 6.7 knots in 13 knots of wind. We sailed hard on the wind for most of the day with winds between 10 and 15 knots gusting to 17. We had only 44 miles to go to get to the Solomon's but we had to tack back and forth and around 3 PM we fired up the Yanmar diesel and motor sailed the rest of the way in.

A dark & stormy is going down smoothly as I write this post and shortly we will explore what Solomon's has to offer. Tomorrow is supposed to be rainy so unless we get favorable winds, we might spend another day here. We still have two days of sailing before we reach Norfolk.

1 comment: