New wind, Dolphins a party and class.

05072008 2200EDT 24 51N 71 35W C330M 646nm to Savannah

Our new wind came in early this afternoon and we had an afternoon of the type of sailing you see pictures of in the magizines. Calm seas steady winds and a pod of dolphins swimming off the bow. Steve, Scott and Lora spent about 10 minutes on the bow watching them play in our bow wave. We counted 11 of them, but we couldn't convince them stay to stay in one place long enough for a group photo. Here's a picture of some of them. We know we have better ones, but not sure who's camera they're on. Another pod of dolphins joined us for our Cinco De Mayo party... We know it's not really today, but sea conditions didn't allow us make the tacos the other day. Another pod of dolphins joined us for the party.

After dinner during another magnificant sunset, Rusty gave us a quick lesson on celestial navigation It's to complex a topic to learn one short lesson, but we got the basic understanding of the concepts.

A little house keeping

05/08/2008 1200EDT Postition: 24 18'N 70 45'W C325M S4.5kn 701nm to Savannah.

We're currently motoring along in calm seas into 3-5kn headwind. It's warm and partly sunny with unlimited visibility. Jimmy Buffett is playing on the stereo. The crew is getting some rest, doing some laundry and taking advantage of the down time to tidy up the boat a bit so we'll be ready to go when the new wind arrives.

Question for the kids: A few nights ago, Pete commented that he saw bioluminescence in the water as the boat surfed down the waves. What do you think was seeing.

More on the flying fish

Yesterday we mentioned that we had some flying fish on the boat, but we had a busy day so we didn't take the time to post all the details. The first incident, Rusty was kicking back relaxing when suddenly there was a flying fish flopping around on the floor of the boat. We're not sure who was more startled, Rusty or the fish. Then a while later, still the middle of the night... Lora was at the helm when something suddenly flew across her face and hit her in the arm. It was slimey and wet. She and Scott looked down and found another flying fish flopping around on the seat between them. Scott picked it up and tossed it back in the water. It was several hours later when Steve reminded him that Rusty had volunteered to clean any fish that we caught along the way. We had Spagetti for dinner instead...