What ARE they thinking?

OK, sometimes our decisions seem a little odd… For example we were in warn and comfy Miami, ready to cross to the Bahamas, and instead we end up in Brunswick Georgia? Where they had real snow on the ground two weeks ago?

Well, I have clients who need a delivery of their boat from Grenada, right back to here, Brunswick, GA. so we took two days, and a nearly perfect weather window, to bring Harmonie up here. An easy trip for us, it is a nice safe place to park Harmonie for the two weeks we will be gone, and it eliminates travel expenses to the client for Karen and I on the back side. Win-win.

The sailing on this trip was ALMOST perfect. When we are looking to sail south along the USA East Coast we look for the back side of a cold front, when the wind clocks to the northwest, and use that to make miles south. When moving north, we look for the front side of the front, where the wind builds and clocks from the southeast to the southwest.

Our timing on this one was almost perfect. As soon as we got out into the ocean off Florida, we set sail, and rode the Gulf Stream north. We continued that ride all the way to within 15 miles of the sea buoy off Brunswick, when the front came racing off the coast and after a very short period of rain, left us with northwest winds, right on the nose. If only we had been clairvoyant enough to have left 4 hours early, we would have been tied up before the front came offshore. Our trusty Volvo came to the rescue and brought us the rest of the way. For the overall trip, we averaged 8.2 knots over 45 hours. Really fast for us. We even had a 24 hour stretch where we covered 211 miles. Not our fastest run ever, but well up there.

We now have three days to put Harmonie to bed and fly off the Grenada. We’ll have a bit of setup on the boat which is currently on the hard, and due to be launched after we arrive. We’ll then check out of immigration in Grenada, and set off on what we expect to be a 10 day trip back to… right here!

In case you missed it…

Recently we posted a video on our YouTube channel that was about the worst example of anchoring we have EVER seen. (There was one worse than this, believe it or not, but we didn’t have cameras ready).