In this episode we set out on our 1000 mile sailing passage to Canada. Initially we encounter steep waves and choppy seas off Beaufort NC but offshore condit...

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in this episode we set out on our

thousand mile sailing Passage to Canada

initially we encounter steep waves and

choppy seas off Beaufort North Carolina

but offshore conditions mellow out

considerably we make incredible speed

thanks to the Gulf Stream and choose to

navigate through it to optimize its

effect as we continued northward and

thanks to favorable winds enjoy a

comfortable and easy ride

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they say it

do lose the attitude

Bofur it did not want to let us out

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we weren't motor sailing this morning I

think see the windows gonna come way

down we opted to just pull out our jib

right now and main to save the fuel so

it looks like we'll be motoring from six

o'clock tonight all the way through to

11 o'clock so like 36 hours so we opted

to set sail again you've notes low save

some diesel the kind of cool thing

though is even though we'll be motoring

and I have it loaded in our program here

that we motor at 4 knots you can see the

speed over ground can be close to 8

because the Gulfstream once we get in

the main part of the stream here we will

be getting a 4 knob boost so even though

it'll be light will still be making good

progress where's our destination

actually kind of ideal to me in a

Gulfstream in light air is you know all

that current moving it could be choppy

so looks like it's gonna work out pretty

well

and it is an absolutely so it is 8:30

kind of having a later dinner here but

I'm all off schedule because I stayed up

most of the night last night but see

going

eats nuts right now she's very fast for

our boat and that is because of the Gulf

Stream and the Gulf Stream is this right

here it's yellow thing and we were just

looking at the charts looks like we've

made a lot of progress today we have

gone 150 miles since we left our boat is

where that green dot is right there

you can see we're right off Norfolk

Virginia so we're almost almost out of

North Carolina

almost into Virginia

and over the next day I guess tomorrow

we're going to figure out which route

we're going to take because if we go

east we can pick up more the Gulfstream

but our ley line is the straight line so

that means that's like the direction

we're going to Halifax so we've to

decide what we're going to do and see

because it is a huge speed boost so we

don't have to make that decision for

about seventy miles so for tonight I

have a pretty easy pretty easy watch I'm

just gonna look out for squalls check

the horizon for boats I'm still just

trying to kind of get into the groove it

usually takes me about three days unlike

Phil who seems to just spring into

seafaring action DeeDee Utley so I'm

feeling a little bit off right now not

hugely energetic so I think I'm probably

gonna curl up make myself a little bed

and watch a movie

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so I've just woken up it is noon I had

the night watches again just chilling

here with my my bunny in my berth and

I'm having some coffee because the

motion is amazing it's just like one of

the best sales we've ever had it's super

light how do we explain what we think is

happening here like it we've been at 20

knots of wind but it feels like we're on

a speeding right it's perfectly still me

think it has something to do with the

current right yeah we're not sure

I mean blowin I mean right now it's

light it's only blowing six knots true

but the last 48 hours blowing 25 true

but the waves were just kind of knocked

down I'm not sure if it was running with

the Gulf Stream I know if you're in the

Gulf Stream and the wings out of the

north and so like a choppy night there

maybe if the wind goes with the current

it kind of knocks down the waves I don't

know but we haven't been in more than

like five or six foot waves ship the

worst is the beginning like I don't yeah

having some to breathe top last night

since we're switching on and off wash

probably every three hours

we're often too tired to talk how many

miles have we got in total down um let

me see here I started my Navionics track

at day in 17 hours ago outside of Cape

Lookout then we cover 277 miles or

average oh six point seven knots it's

awesome so we've read about it there

done a quarter yeah sorry about a

quarter on a run line it's gonna be nice

amazing go Gulf Stream I never thought I

would say that we just made a turn

almost due east we're following the Gulf

Stream so we left from here Cape Lookout

we made our way northeast into the

current and we rode up here and we

actually just made this turn east we're

gonna follow this cuz as you can see the

wind is very very light true in the life

four point seven knots and actually out

of the north now a cold front came

through

low pressure so it actually worked out

perfectly to have you know a north wind

here so we wouldn't even want a motor to

into that anyways and we might look at

this nice four and a half knot boost

when we get over there so I was a pretty

easy decision to make because I think I

mentioned the other day that our hourly

line this yellow guy is so in theory

we're just kind of gone straight but yes

we're gonna go this right turn into the

Gulfstream works well for the wind and

also gives us a boost which we really

need in these light wind conditions so

two great reasons to choose to make a

bit of a right-hand turn yeah I guess we

continue on there ley line from here

from this point so pick up you know it

goes back northeast will be a no-parent

and it's picking up this a little bit of

an eddy here and then we're clear it's

just kind of and that is that's Nova

Scotia and look at the seat time changes

so you can see the Gulf Stream it's a

red hot part temperature-wise this a tea

in a tea must be an 83 which we are

eighty three point three eighty three

point two but once we get up here water

is 50 degrees yeah like all this 58 oh I

just melted sugar just thinking about it

it's the Bay of Fundy right here I guess

all the cold water rushes out of there

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nice sailing is what it feels it you're

not really selling it I'm getting a

mooring right now well we're doing six

and a half knots that's the amazing

thing about the rail stream right now

that I've never like drifted but it's

been six and a half knots

so as you can see it is dead calm out

here there is a little bit of breeze

just not the right direction for us to

say

so we do have the main sellout just

balance us out and pick up with a small

amount of breeze we can but we're

motoring good news is that

is working or autopilot

so

all's well that ends well things are

really going well here in passage and

yeah in the next hundred miles or so we

should be out of a Gulfstream and

expects the temperatures to come way

down so really looking forward

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