We have passed the Chesapeake Bridge-Tunnel and are now officially in the ocean. The winds have clocked a bit, and we are on a comfortable beam reach passing Cape Henry, headed for Cape Hatteras. For the next hour or two we still have the challenge of negotiating the zone of heavy commercial ship traffic headed in and out of the bay.

Right now it’s a beautiful evening, easy comfortable sailing with winds from the WSW at 10 to 12 knots. Over the next few hours the winds are forecast to clock around to the north, and pretty much stay there for the next couple days. Our routing software predicts our arrival in Brunswick in 3 days, a very fast trip.