We did make it to Fort Pierce tonight ready for the repair work tomorrow. It has been long days as Greg will explain in the following paragraphs, but it has been great fun. One of my favorites is to have all the people on their way to work stop while they open the bridge for us to go through. Sorry, I know that's mean but it is fun!
Greg from the crew of Martini contrtbuted the following. We could not get on the wi-fi to publish it until tonight.
Well we have been steadily moving south over the last couple of days. The weather for the most part has been good, a little chilly, very little rain and some sun. We are looking forward to the days of shorts and tee shirts and the clear water of the Bahamas.
Our best run for one day has been 70 miles and that was an exceptional day mileage wise. Can you imagine getting excited over a total of 70 miles in one day? That is about the distance of Milledgeville to Macon round trip. Those 70 miles was the main topic of conversation over supper of grill chicken, new potatoes, biscuits, and salad. This meal was supplied by Celebration. The next day run was only 62 and we hardly mentioned anything about it at dinner last night. Oh, our dinner last night was hot dogs and potato chips, which was provided by Martini. They seem to eat a little better on Celebration; it may be the influence of Freida. Come to think of it last year with four guys we ate well on Celebration as well.
It is the hope of the crew of Martini that if we serve hot dogs, Celebration will do most of the cooking.
It is our hope to make Fort Pierce today, a run of only 54 miles, so we will be sitting at the dock Monday morning when they are scheduled to start the repair work on Celebration. We are thinking, hoping and praying that the repairs will go as plan and we will be on our way on Tuesday.
If things go according to plan we should make our crossing to the Bahamas mid week weather permitting.
Crossing the Gulf Stream is always exciting. The Gulf Steam has a steady current of 2-3 knots flowing from the south to the north. You have to time your crossing when there are no north winds. If the winds are from the north and the stream is going north this creates very large and bumpy seas and that is not fun.
That is about it for now; we all know how lucky we are to be out here living the dream.
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