Voyage 2010: Chapter 2

25 Nov 2010, East of the Stream and heading Southeast, 29 29.07 N/ 072 41.32 W

Yesterday, the wind cooperated and on 0930 ET saw the engine turned off and Jule III was sailing with all three of her sails. Unheard of!! We sailed through the night with 6-8 foot seas and 10-15 kts out of the North. Everybody is having fun. The vee berth bed clothes are finally a bit dry after the ocean entered the forward hatch during the bumpier part of the Stream crossing. We since dogged down both hatches.

27 Nov 2010, More Southeast, 28 09.01 N/ 069 30.20 W

Today, the wind stayed with us and we are still sailing on our SE course. Around 1500 today we heard a 'clunk' and then autopilot started to protest. We heaved to in 8 foot seas and swab Butch crawled into the cleaned out lazaretto and we discovered that the nut locking the ram to the tiller arm had loosened and parted. Within fifteen minutes we were back on our way. It is 1800 Et now, it is very dark and we are still maintaining about 4 kts under sail. Not too bad for such calm conditions. Today is Thanksgiving in the USA and we celebrated with hot dogs and baked beans. We had a little turkey in the refrigerator but it was too rolly to prepare and eat.