Join us in a sailing adventure from
Channel Islands harbor, California aboard the 42 ft. sailing vessel
Moonlight. There are no cruising plans here except to continue
until the fun stops. The boats destination is always over the horizon to
the next port or island anchorage and we sail there at an incredibly slow pace.
That direction depends on the wind and current to push us along.
May 9:
Up early and 12 hours later we are in
Key West, Florida. Moonlight returns to the US for the first time in
four years. She has sailed us over 5100 nm. We are ready to
celebrate. May 6-8:
At anchor in Dry Tortugas, Florida and
exploring Fort Jefferson and resting.
May 5:
Finally tacked for Dry Tortugas and
arrived at 5:30 PM. So 2.5 days to cover 292 nm.
May 4:
Off of Cuba and the wind indicator has
to be broken. All it ever reads is over knots and wind on the nose.
We covered 135 nm the first day.
May 3:
Departed Isla Mujeres for Dry Tortugas,
Florida. In the afternoon, enjoyed being in a washing machine with
Force 5 winds and 10 ft seas. Just hang on it will pass. But we
are doing 8 knots towards our destination.
May 2:
Moved out of Marina Del Sol and off the
mud - hooray. May 1:
How many times can a Mexican official
stamp ten pieces of paper just so we can get out of the country ......
answer - until the damn page is full. It occurs every time we enter
and leave a country and continues to be an incredible spectacle to watch and
difficult to keep from laughing. But we are almost free to depart on
our return to the US.
After the check-out is finished we kind
feel like we have won the lottery or something special. Saturday is
still the departure day and we are very ready.
These emails are presented with an (at) for @ and (dot) for . to avoid
spam searches and also no spaces.
wdb9301 (at)
sailmail (dot) com
A SSB radio based text-only email on
the boat that will not allow any pictures or attachments. This one we check almost everyday.
PLEASE NO ATTACHMENTS OR REPLY EMAILS, ONLY ORIGINAL TEXT.
yentsail (at)
gmail (dot) com
Yen's land base email and takes attachments and includes replies.
reotime (at)
dock (dot) net
Ron's land base email and handles attachments, etc.
Dial 011 if in the US and then
(8816) 3157
2982.
This is an Iridium Satellite phone and
the charge is $1.10 per minute to you - how fast can we talk. This phone works anywhere on the planet earth - anywhere
unlike Globalstar, etc. and we leave it on most all the time when at sea or
remote anchorages.
MOONLIGHT
SAILING
