Well this is my first time with a diary AKA blog so I think that it might take me awhile to get the hang of this thing and pretty up the settings and visuals. I will do my best to keep it interesting and free of detritus.
The week of Thanksgiving I fly from Portland to London, spend the night in London to change airports and then off to the Canary Islands, on Thanksgiving day. For those of you who are not so sure where the Canaries are, they are off the coast of Morroco, North Africa, and are a province of Spain. The weather in the Canaries is considered to be some of the most temperate in the world with temperatures from 65-75 all year round. This will occur after the hurricane season and the weather/wind should be at our backs for most of the trip. This does not however mean that we couldn't have and probably will have some big water.
We are leaving on Saturday in a large international rally of something like 200 sailboats of all sizes in the annual ARC or Atlantic Rally Crossing. The boats will be of all sizes but ours will be a 47 foot Catamaran owned by my friend Lee Adamson and co-captioned with his partner Wendy Fredell. They spent the last 6 months chartering the Med. At this point I am not sure if there will be anyone else on the passage with us.
Being in the ARC will be interesting because I believe that every day all of the boats will check in with their SSB radios, and give positions, fish caught, problems etc.
We can't know how long it will take to cross back to St. Lucia, in the Carribbean, but we are guessing at maybe 2 weeks, ish, give or take, if we are lucky....
That is the plan.
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My long time travel buddy heads off on a trip that is considered a "holy grail" of trips for the sailing community. Braving the open ocean with just Lee and Wendy for company. What an exciting time for you! Those of you who have known Teresa for years will appreciate that I mentioned to her she's come a long way since I met her at GE. Congratulations to you for taking on "the real deal" while others are content to be armchair sailors. Have you sold the story to Latitudes yet?
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