Uncategorized - Sail Ripple

2026-04-182026-04-21

260418 Land Ho! 32°22’47.2800″N 64°40’37.4160″W

After a day and a half of motorsailing, we finally found land, and it was indeed our destination, Bermuda! As we got closer, we noticed clouds rolling in and the skies turned green. In Texas that means tornados! With 5 miles left to the dock and only 2-3 miles offshore, the rain came down so hard that Bermuda disappeared entirely! Luckily it was a short powerful storm that dissipated just before we entered Town Cut around 9am. This entrance is protected by Gates Fort and is the main entrance to St. Georges Harbor. Once through the cut we docked and walked over to be processed by Bermuda Customs.

A wonderful delivery with seasoned old salts, I’ll gladly sail with this group again!

2026-04-172026-04-17

260417 Doldrums 30°23’9.2040″N 64°39’30.3120″W

Little to no wind today, almost glassy seas, nothing but blue skies and puffy white clouds,

We will be on the lookout for a Green Flash tonight!

at 14:30, we are about 120nm from Bermuda, we are expecting landfall tomorrow morning

2026-04-162026-04-17

260416 Smooth Sailing 27°46’26.0760″N 64°21’22.3200″W

Looks like we are finally out of the storms, today was the perfect sailing day. Beam winds of about 10-15 kts kept us moving solidly along at around 7-8kts! At this rate we expect to make landfall in Bermuda sometime Saturday morning.

2026-04-152026-04-17

260415 Beautiful weather today! 24°49’53.2920″N 63°46’2.0640″W

After dodging and plowing through storms for the past few days, today was absolutely delightful! Clear skies with a scattering of puffy white clouds and calm deep blue seas made for a wonderful journey today! Finished the day off with only ~222nm remaining to Bermuda. We should make landfall there on Saturday morning!

2024-04-142024-04-14

Solomons Island

Well, The weather forecast was accurate. We had a wonderful early morning motoring down the Chesapeake making good way in extremely calm seas. Around noon the wind picked up and hammered us for the rest of the day.

We decided to duck out and grab safe harbor on Solomons Island for the evening. Winds tomorrow should be quite nice, 5 to 10 knots out of the due West. It should be perfect sailing weather.

We should be in Norfolk on Tuesday.

2023-11-092023-11-09

06:00-10:00

We have teamed up with two other boats from our group and are heading almost due south together. Shortly before this shift started, we hit the doldrums and progress has slowed tremendously.

It’s a beautiful, clear day, there’s just not enough wind for sailboats.

2023-11-032023-11-05

1400-17:30 Warmer Weather

The Gulfstream not only brought us further south but also brought warmer temps along with it. With the water from the gulfstream coming straight up from the Gulf of Mexico. It’s much warmer now than it was yesterday. I’m actually wearing shorts today!

2023-11-032023-11-05

00:00-04:30 Boat Speed

We finally caught the Gulf Stream and with the assistance of that current I actually saw 17 and 1/2 knot speeds from the boat! At this location there’s a bend in the current and we rode that wave a considerable distance southbound towards our goal!