Captains Log 05/20/07

Located in South Caicos

The ride today started with calm seas and no wind. Unfortunately, around half way mark, a squall hit and the wind turned on the nose. It was blowing pretty hard so we had to motorsail and talk in pretty steep chop. The ride turned out to be miserable. After we neared the eastern end of the caicos bank, the wind veered a bit more towards SE and we were able to take a starboard tack motorsailing with full gib. This gave us quite a boost in speed but the chop was still very steep and narrow making the ride uncomfortable. Few hours of this and we can turn north towards south caicos. However, the turn takes place after the banks end and deep ocean begins. This makes seas even worst as we found out. But we were able to sail and keep the boat heeled. This made the ride much more comfortable. I tried fishing again but had no luck. We got into South Caicos around 4PM. The anchorage is quite calm and looks like we'll be sleeping good here. We plan on Checking out in the morning and heading for Luperon, DR!!!

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