720 NM to Lunenburg

After a lovely stay in Bermuda, the Maggie B got underway this morning and was leaving St. Georges Harbour through the narrow Town Cut at noon today. We have about 720 NM to go to Lunenburg. We hope to arrive there at about noon on Saturday, May 10th.

We have an interesting weather pattern ahead of us. Hopefully not TOO interesting. The weather has a pretty good gale passing north of us right now, with a front coming through this evening. As of this writing (1500) we are doing nine knots, headed a bit west of rhumb line, in a 20-25 knots SSW’erly. After the front we expect a more NW’erly and will be able to slide back towards rhumb line. The Commanders Weather (soon to be up on the web site), calls for it to get lighter for a day and then begin to crank up in anticipation of a deep low, due on our track about when we arrive in Lunenburg. Bermuda Weather anticipates this second low to be all the way down to 987 mb, so we are very eager to beat it into safe harbor.

We are all very focused that it is the last few miles when an inordinate proportion of accidents happen. It would be pretty silly to come 38,000 NM and then stub your toe crossing the finish line. We are going to do our best not to be silly.

All is well.