Location: 19° 45N, 62° 02W
Friday, 04.25.2008

The Schooner Maggie B was at 19° 45N, 62° 02W at noon on April 25th. We were making 7.2 knots due north, motorsailing in a light SW’erly. We are flying The Bird, our lovely G2 gennaker. We have come 175 NM from Antigua and have 765 NM to go to Bermuda.

It is 4562 NM from here to Cape Horn and only 1469 left to Halifax.

The weather is clearly changing. Last night at sunset there were high cirrus Mare’s Tails. Today at noon the high clouds were mostly obscured by Alto Stratus, with some lower Cumulus working their way in. Rain showers are on the horizon to the Sou’west. The barometer is still mostly steady at 1006, but the wind has shifted around from the Sou’east to the Sou’west and increased a bit.

It would be lovely to have a few days of a nice SW’erly blow, but Commanders says that a weak low is coming through, with NW and North behind it. Whatever.

We must be trailing a big school of fish from the Caribbean. There has been a very aggressive Juvenile Masked B@@by following us and diving regularly, apparently mostly successfully. (I cannot use the “o’s” in Sula dactylatra’s name because it triggers offending language alerts in some network watchdogs). Perhaps it is time to get the lines out to share in the ocean’s bounty.

We are all beginning to settle into the watch routine for passages. But being such a short leg, we will be there before we fully get our inner clocks readjusted.

All is well.