A quick update from Beaufort NC USA

There are clearly a lot of blog entries missing for November.  We are working on them and they will appear soon but, as you will see below, our priority is to take advantage of a potential good weather window to head towards the Caribbean before winter really sets in.

Not much sight seeing has been done in Beaufort, which is a shame because there is a good seafaring museum along with a lot of period houses and nice shops.  Instead we have been working hard to get BV ready for our next big offshore passage, whilst also watching the weather patterns very carefully.  It looks like we should be able to leave tomorrow, 29 November, and be able to make reasonable progress before the next winter storm system sweeps up the east coast of the USA and then on towards Europe. It’s going to be an interesting 1200-1400 mile passage.  Aside from trying to get far enough south east fast enough to keep clear of the worst of the storms, it’s also going to be very cold for the first part of the passage. We hope it will be significantly warmer when we have crossed the Gulf stream but, just in case, as well as servicing bits and pieces and filling up BV with water, food and fuel, we have also cooked up lots of warming soup and the first few days of evening meals.  Those should get us through the worst of the cold and give us time to settle into our watch system before we have to look at cooking meals from scratch.  We’ll see how the plan works out.  We are hoping that the next proper Blog entry will be us arriving in the northern Caribbean in 10-12 days time.

Beaufort, North Carolina, USA