Create your own adventures on Lake Travis, in the British Virgin Islands, and beyond!
After motoring directly into the wind all afternoon, we rounded the Northeast corner of Puerto Rico a few hours after sunset. At 8:15 we were able to turn off the wind. We set our sails and are now flying northeast towards the Dominican Republic.
There’s a bit of a storm heading our way, so we rushed up the provisioning and departed Palmas Del Mar harbor at 2:00 p.m. this afternoon. Our goal is to get as many miles in as we can before the storm hits, ducking into the Dominican Republic if necessary to wait the storm out for a few days.
We’re currently passing Ceiba Bay and Vieques Island that are both known for fantastic bioluminescence in the water during new moon periods!
For those of you that know what AIS is, we are turning the on AIS and checking it out for the trip today. If this works, you should be able to track us at sites like MarineTraffic.com searching for the vessel TOOLOOSE. That’s all one word, if you search for two words it returns a different vessel.
I have received a last minute chance to crew on a 45′ sailboat from Puerto Rico to Key West, Florida next week, This looks like a ~1200nm journey. Soooooo, I’m heading south to Puerto Rico early Monday morning! Hopefully, this leg of the delivery will take ~6-10 days and have me back in Austin by mid December!
Here’s the vessel that I’ll be on,
https://islandpacket45forsale.com/
And here’s my GPS tracking page if you want to follow me. I’ll pass along the AIS information when I receive it. https://tracks.SailRipple.com
I’ll also update this blog during the trip whenever I can
Fair Winds!