The trip is going well. We are doing a bit slower than we hoped in
lighter wind but we're sailing averaging 5-6 kts with fair amount of
fast small chop coming almost on our beam. Sun has set and it is
beginning to cool off. Beautiful sailing today with a nice breeze and
mostly sunny. Wind is behind the beam so we have been adjusting our
heading to keep the wind from getting too far behind us. Maybe tomorrow
we'll run the spinnaker although the wind is supposed to go more
southerly so we might get a beam reach for a while.
Spoke to our buddy boat earlier and they are about 8 miles ahead of us
having gotten out before we did. We're about 40 miles from the channel
out of North Sound with about 113 mi to our next waypoint which is about
1/3rd of the way to Guatemala. We could have done a rhumb line from
Cayman to Guatemala but there are shoals along the way we want to avoid
so I made waypoints by the hazards to be sure we were far enough away
when we passed and wouldn't inadvertently sail through them.
Still hard to believe after all the talking, thinking, planning and
preparing we are underway.
Will post the next update in the morning
-- get a beam reach for a while
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