Day 1 at sea / leaving day: Woke to great weather - sun and light wind 10 knots blowing north east - perfect! Breakfast was great as usual - raisin bran with banana, toast with marmalade and orange slices plus coffee. We went for a quick swim and then showered with the solar showers. We cleaned up the boat and listened for weather updates. For the record: the Rusee de Jersey is a 1987, 39 foot Kelt (built in Vanne, France). It has an adjustable 7 foot keel an...

Day 9: Father's Day!!! I woke up and read the card that Pam had snuck into my duffle bag. James wrote on the card and maybe it was the message combined with being away that brought a tear to my eye. We had another great breakfast courtesy of Greg. I decided to risk the financial penalty and turned my blackberry on and called home. It was great to hear Pam's voice and to hear that they are doing okay (I also downloaded 145 emails ... I decide I'll read them whe...

Day 8: Overcast morning Breakfast of bagels and cereal with juice and coffee. The long range weather is questionable as we need south west winds on Monday for a nice ride and it looks like we are getting north east - this could make for an uncomfortable start to the voyage. We clean up an pull anchor heading to Hamilton for groceries. Once there we hit the wifi spot at the library for email and weather updates. I surprisingly get a Skype call from my brother b...

Day 7: It started to rain last night. It was nice but I had to close my hatch. I was somewhat awake when I heard an alarm go off. Yves got up and I thought he turned it off. I thought it might be an alarm clock and it went off again. Yves went up top. It was really raining hard and had some good gusts of wind. I looked out the stern windows and my eye caught the Teepee about 150 feet away. This seemed strange to me as they seemed much further from us the night ...

Day 6: Greg did catch a fish last night. Just as he was turning off the lights we heard the reel start. He jumped up the stairs and once topside grabbed the rod with joy. Maybe ten minutes of fight - reel and slack- and he landed a nice sized silver looking fish (species as yet not determined) maybe 3 pounds. He brought it inside and was about to kill it when Yves convinced him to offer the fish a drink of rum; not only is this polite, it kills the fish almost ...