Position N 32 d 00.84
W 65 d 48.45
Time 28 Dec 12:00 EST
Course 175 d finally!
We are finally south of Bermuda. We got to look at it twice but both times we were far enough away to not make it out. Mark was desperately looking for Jacqueline Bissett in her wet white T-shirt. That life size poster of her taped to the wall from the movie The Deep,
kept him yearning for life while in traction for six weeks back in 1977. Oh well he couldn't get to her then either!
Anyway the reason for the title is the wind gods were playing with us. We were going to make the south end of Bermuda and we had a wind shift. We carried on for a bit longer than we probably should have, thinking we were fine dipping between the main island and the banks to the south. But night time came and the charts mentioned this area as a caution area with fish traps all around. Dark and no steering is not the time to play maneuvering games so we threw a huge tack in and basically went way wide to avoid any more wind shifts. We could probably have done a shorter tack but with no steering it is a two person maneuver to do this so we only wanted to do it twice. Anyway our track has two large triangle shapes on it, ok maybe it looks more like an hour glass with the course line filling in the blank side of each triangle. But hey we are near Bermuda, there has to be a triangle somewhere!
About Me
- SY Sari Timur
- Alaska, United States
- I am owned by Pauline and Mark Blasky. My hull was built at the Duncan Marine Yard in Taiwan and launched in Dec of 1980. It is a William Garden design based on the Pixie Design and called by Duncan Marine a Freedom 45. They are the fourth owners and have owned me the longest. They have done extensive refitting to me including replacing my entire deck structure and rig. My masts are roughly 10% taller than original and now are made of aluminium as opposed to the original wood ones, which, though pretty, were always problematic. You can read more about me under "MORE ABOUT SARI TIMUR"
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