Tuesday, June 28, 2011
Back to Civilization
end. In a few days we are going to haul out the boat and put her in a
boat yard. In a few weeks we will be back in Tallahassee, with school
about to start. We have a lot of work to do though, and we have been
very busy in the few days we have been here. So far we have cleaned a
good deal, changed the oil in the engine, replaced the broken lazyjacks,
done the laundry, taken down and cleaned the harnesses, tethers, and
jacklines, and replaced a defective pulley at the masthead. We still
have to preserve the watermaker, put antifreeze in the water tanks, stow
everything on deck, clean the bottom, finish the cosmetic work, take
down the sails, and remove the wind generator blades. Some of this we
will do in the water, some we will do in the yard, but the coming days
are going to be full of hard work.
--Orion Date
Monday, June 27, 2011
Deltaville
--By Rigel
Sunday, June 26, 2011
Saturday, June 25, 2011
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Last Days
These days in Marsh Harbor and Hope Town have been our last days in the Bahamas. Today was our last day before the passage back to Virginia, and it has been rainy and cloudy all #$@%ing day. All day, except once during the morning when we were busy cleaning the weed off the hull. It really stinks, because we were planning to go snorkeling all afternoon today, as it is our last chance to snorkel on this trip. In a matter of weeks we will be back at home with school starting, and we will definitely not be able to snorkel then. We could go swimming at the pool, but that is just not the same as swimming in the ocean, and there will definitely not be any coral reefs there.
A week ago we arrived in Hope Town. Dad had really been looking forward to visiting there, and it was a lot of fun. We got to climb the lighthouse and see the mechanism that rotates the kerosene light source at night. Apparently someone has to climb the tower every half hour to an hour to wind it up, that must be quite irritating. In Marsh Harbor nearby we made a major grocery run to load up for the passage. We made another for perishables two days ago, and one more run here in Man-o¢-war Cay for parmesan cheese, which we had forgotten. Tomorrow we plan to up anchor and start our six day passage to Virginia.
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Wednesday, June 22, 2011
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Tuesday, June 21, 2011
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Sunday, June 19, 2011
Squally, squally day
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Saturday, June 18, 2011
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Thursday, June 16, 2011
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Wednesday, June 15, 2011
Pack animal mode, one last time
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Tuesday, June 14, 2011
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Monday, June 13, 2011
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Sunday, June 12, 2011
Little Harbour, Great Abaco
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Saturday, June 11, 2011
Power boaters
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Wednesday, June 8, 2011
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Tuesday, June 7, 2011
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Monday, June 6, 2011
Watchkeeping
watches during the daytime. It works like this: Orion (or I) go up
top. Every twenty minutes or so we check the horizon, and now that we
are in the Bahamas, we check for coral heads when it is shallow. We
actually check for coral head every minute, but that is beside the
point. After an hour, we switch. This system works pretty well.
Usually, Dad is in the cockpit as well, and we sometimes play twenty
questions, or something like that. We are both extremely good at it by
now. This passage, being eight hours long (it might have been more) we
used the system the whole time. No complaints. However, the engine
started to overheat. We turned it off, as the sails were out. We
deduced that it was the raw water pump failing in some way, so we
closed the seacock and took apart the water pump. We noticed that
nothing was wrong (by the way, I was on watch this whole time) with
it. So then we put it back together and started the engine. It started
to overheat again, so we turned it off again and then saw that the
seacock was still closed. We opened the seacock, started the engine,
and it ran normally. Odd. Any ideas on how this could have happened?
--By Rigel
Two Years and Five Days Ago
That's how long it's been since we left Amelia Island Yacht Basin for Bermuda. Two years and four days ago was my last day of sixth grade, and my last day of regular school. I can't believe that we have been away from the United States for two entire years, but I have learned far more about the world than I ever could from a textbook. This trip has taken up almost one seventh of my life, and it has made a huge difference in my view of the world. I have actually seen the Parthenon, and The Last Supper, and Mount Etna, and Stromboli, Pompeii, the Italian Alps, the Rock of Gibraltar, Knossos, Vesuvius, Rome, the Coliseum, and countless other amazing sights I would have only seen pictures of at home. This has been a wonderful experience for me, and I am sorry to see it come to and end.
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Sunday, June 5, 2011
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Saturday, June 4, 2011
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Wednesday, June 1, 2011
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Latitude:24.71455
Longitude:-76.82959
GPS location Date/Time:06/01/2011 16:49:28 GMT
Message:Juno's latest position:
Click the link below to see where I am located.
http://fms.ws/4xgTM/24.71455N/76.82959W
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