Ready To Sail

Fernandina Beach Public Library
N 30.671964 W -081.462373 (see the map)

We had a very nice Sunday in Fernandina. Mostly we walked around the downtown, watched people, read the sunday New York Times, and bought a pound of shrimp for dinner from the fish market.

We'll set sail today after lunch. There is zero wind this morning and the smoke from the Georgia fire is so thick that visibility is down to 3/4 mile. We'll have to use the radar off shore. I hate doing that because it's such a power drain.

The forecast is for four days of southerly winds around 10 knots. It may be very slow and very boring out there. It's a good test of my abiliyt to have the patience of a sailor. If I fail, we'll put in to anchor in one or more places along the coast. If not, we'll stay 25-40 miles offshore on a rhumb line to Beaufort, NC.

Yesterday we got a call from our son David in Kuwait. It was very nice to hear from him. He's really bored. While we were chatting, I got a second call from our daughter Jennifer in Vermont. On a hunch, I looked at my phone's menu and sure enough there was a "conference" option. I selected it and bingo, we had a three way Vermont, Kuwait, Florida family conference going. Ain't technology wonderful? We may get to break that record later this year when my oldest son, John, also goes overseas to a yet to be revealed country.