Captains Log 02/06/07

Located in Lake Worth Inlet, FL

Long waiting period got us a bit lazy. Weather is not cooperating and we are just patiently waiting the right moment to raise the anchor and head for Bahamas. We just did a large grocery run. Got all the drinks, perishable and semi perishable groceries for the next month. But the small window of weather that we had, we didn't use and now we have either no wind, or northerly winds. In both cases it's not a good idea to cross the gulf stream. I have firmly decided to make our fuel supply last more than two months. So I don't want to motor 60 miles to Bahamas. I would like to sail. The problem is that 3 knots of Norhterly current in the form of Gulf Stream will push us very far north if we don't maintain at least 5 knots of speed. The second case is the northerly winds against the gulf stream current creates an equivalent of 30 mile wide tide rip with waves very steep and high. This is the reason not to go on any northerly wind component. And with three cold fronts lining up over the next week or so, this mean lots of 20kts of NW, N or NE winds creating hazardous waves. So we are just hanging out here in west palm beach chipping away at our supplies. I guess will have to do one more grocery run. One thing I fixed while waiting was the watermaker. But I have discovered a crack in one of the pressure vessels, so we are running on one membrane with water production about 20GPH. Still ok for our needs.

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