Date: 05/21/2011Latitude: 25* 09.3NLongitude: 065* 14.7WWeather: Light Airs, Hot and SunnyLog: Day 2 at Sea - 502 miles to goTitle: "Visitor From Space" "Behold the fowls of the air; for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?"Matt 6-26 Yesterday a Stormy Petrel landed on our solar panel. Mirko and I were amazed at how friendly it seemed. It wasn't fazed by anything we d...

Date: 05/20/2011Local Time: 1630Latitude: 18* 26'.1 NLongitude: 64* 26.0 WWeather: Gentle Breeze, RainyTitle: Day 1 at sea I was woken early to take the wheel because the wind had shifted around to the south and Barry rigged a preventer to keep the main sail from slamming back and forth as we wallowed on a dead run. That done, I cooked fish and potatoes for breakfast.My watches today are the 1100 to 1400 and the 2000 to 2400.It's been rainy and overcast since l...

Date: 05/20/2011 Local Time: 2240 Latitude: Longitude: Weather: Gentle Breeze, Overcast Title: Good-By Virgin Islands This morning Barry went to check us out of immigration and we stowed everything away as best we could. When Barry came back, it started raining so we waited for the squall to pass and went over to the fuel dock to top off the diesel. Then we headed out the channel and headed due north for the open sea. As soon as we cleared the anchorage a...

Date: 05/18/2011 Local time: 2217 Location: Virgin Gorda, BVI Weather: Gentle Breeze, Hot Title: Final Preparations for Sea Today the major task was to take the dingy out of the water and clean it. The first thing I had to do was take this rope out that was forming a sling. It had about 6 knots in it, none of which were proper, and all of which were completely jammed up. If I hadn't had my marlin spike, they would still be there. Even with the spike, it to...

Date: 05/17/2011Local time: 2230Location: Virgin Gorda, BVIWeather: Gentle Breeze, OvercastTitle: Coral Bay to Virgin Gorda We left Coral Bay right after breakfast and were anxious to see how our repairs from yesterday held up with the engine running. Well, it turned out that the "real" leak didn't have anything to do with that little drip from the stern packing gland. The real leak was coming from the engine coolant system. On these marine diesels, the engine ...