Technicalities of sailing
Since Mel last wrote, the Burnetts explored and provisioned in Provo and sailed to Mayaguana, Bahamas. Provo had the most American-ized grocery store yet, the Graceway IGA. Except for the $9.80 for a 12-pack of Coke Zero, that is. Ouch! Unfortunately, crappy weather prevented us from spending time on Grace Beach, officially the “Second Best…
The Burnetts have been in the middle of nowhere. “Zero bars of Lime” kind of nowhere. (Lime is the cell carrier we have in the TCI. That’s “Turks & Caicos Islands” to those in the know, by the way. “Limin’ it up,” in actuality, really means “Getting your WiFi on.”) So we are not dead. …
We have had to sail so close to the wind that we are hand-steering to take advantage of the little bursts of wind that come from 30 degrees instead of 20. Above is a pic of Mel “hand-steering” the autopilot. Push this button to go upwind. Push this one to go downwind. Sailing in the…
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