Monday, April 7, 2014 – 10 PM – Leg 6/Part 2/Day 8 of The Great Loop Sunburn. The scourge of visitors to the tropics and unsuspecting apparitions who forget that the sun is a nuclear engine hell-bent on scorching any minute area of unprotected skin. Though I may not be critically Caucasian, I am currently a whiter shade of pale that currently is glowing a lovely and...
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Sunday, April 6, 2014 – 9 PM – Leg 6/Part 1/Day 7of The Great Loop – 42.7 Miles Everything went according to plan. Preston and the family arrived shortly after finishing the charting last night and the tender was dispatched to pick them up. They brought pizza which was a nice change of pace. There is nothing like pan-fried fish and good BBQ, but a good pizza...
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Saturday, April 5, 2014 – 5 PM – Leg 5/Day 6 of The Great Loop – 37.6 Miles Same weather as the last few days, a good breeze but coming across the starboard side today. Had to keep a good 5 degrees above the desired heading to stay on course. The traffic was a little busier than the weekdays have been but nothing that was overwhelming. Powerboats zoom by me by...
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Friday, April 4, 2014 – 9PM – Leg 4/Day 5 of The Great Loop – 38.2 Miles Today was a day of long wide channels where the urge to stop and fish was overwhelming. That urge was rewarded after about an hour with a couple of sea bass. One became lunch and the other is in the freezer for tomorrow night. Arrived at Palm Bay just before dusk and by the time the...
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Thursday, April 3, 2014 – 7PM – Leg 3/Part 2/Day 4 of The Great Loop – 19.2 Miles It’s a bright and sunny day with some big puffy clouds aloft which made for an absolutely gorgeous way to greet the day. Unfortunately, it also began with quite a scare very early in the morning. An errant seagull dive-bombed the deck and crashed onto the security sensor...
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