{"id":2890,"date":"2014-03-29T14:12:56","date_gmt":"2014-03-29T14:12:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/?p=2890"},"modified":"2014-03-29T14:12:56","modified_gmt":"2014-03-29T14:12:56","slug":"when-less-is-more-in-the-wind-department-at-least","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/?p=2890","title":{"rendered":"When less is more, in the wind department at least."},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s Saturday morning and, FINALLY, the wind has settled down.\u00a0 After a few days of winds in the 20s and all the bumping around that comes with that, it\u2019s wonderful to wake up to what feels, by comparison, like a gentle zephyr.\u00a0 I listened to Chris Parker, the weather router again this morning at 06:30.\u00a0 That\u2019s pretty early and I have to say that I never thought that I would be setting an alarm each day I\u2019m aboard.\u00a0 I thought that alarms were a work thing\u2026\u00a0 However, Sunday Chris is off so I can sleep in tomorrow.\u00a0 I\u2019ll probably wake up early anyway.\u00a0 \u00a0Such is the trials of being a cruiser.\u00a0 Feel sorry for me?\u00a0 My brother Bill\u2019s response might be something like \u201cShut up.\u00a0 Are you F&^%$#@ nuts? It\u2019s snowing here.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

I won\u2019t think about that for now.\u00a0 Did I say that the wind is less today?\u00a0 Yahoo!!!\u00a0 We were beginning to think that that the wind was NEVER going to drop to a reasonable level as it has been one front after another for the last two months that we have been in the Bahamas.\u00a0 However, it seems that there\u2019s light at the end of the tunnel as Chris said this morning that the coming week should be BEAUTIFUL with winds in the southern Bahamas from a reasonable direction and in the 15kt range with no major fronts likely to penetrate this far south. That\u2019s good, very good.<\/p>\n

With that in mind, it looks like we will be heading east to Thompson Bay Long Island on Sunday afternoon or Monday morning.\u00a0 After that we will likely head southwest to the Jumentos as I talked about in yesterday\u2019s post.<\/p>\n

Today we\u2019ll probably head back into town for a few chores and yet another visit to the BATELCO (Bahamas Telephone) store to try and sort out the problems of calling my mother.\u00a0 She is the ONLY person I call that has a land line and for some reason I cannot get through to her number on my Bahamas cell phone.\u00a0\u00a0 Unfortunately, the BATELCO folks can\u2019t seem to figure this out and we have tried everything to solve the problem.\u00a0 For a while we thought it was the phone so I purchased a new one.\u00a0 It worked in the store but not back at the boat.\u00a0 Very frustrating.\u00a0 And, to make matters worse, each time I try to call her and it doesn\u2019t go through I still get charged for the call.<\/p>\n

Anyway, such are details of the cruising life in a rural country.\u00a0\u00a0 Perhaps I am being punished for ditching my mother for a few months.\u00a0 Hmm\u2026<\/p>\n

Speaking of traveling home to see my mother, I have been working on getting crew for the run from Nassau to Essex in May and after a month or so of corresponding with folks back in the States, I think I am about set.\u00a0 As most folks have limits on the time they can be away, \u00a0I will likely make a crew change along the way, probably in Beaufort NC.\u00a0 Last year I made the 1,000 mile run without stopping but this year I\u2019d like to be a bit more leisurely about it as keeping Pandora on the run for nearly a week without a break is a bit tiring.\u00a0\u00a0 Perhaps I am getting old.\u00a0 No, I prefer to think of it as \u201ceffort management\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0 Yes, that\u2019s better.<\/p>\n

Well, the sun is up and getting higher and the day is getting away from me.\u00a0 No exciting pix to share with you.\u00a0\u00a0 No, wait.\u00a0 Here\u2019s a nice shot of me and Brenda in front of the local beach bar when we visited last year.\u00a0\u00a0 Chat and Chill.\u00a0 Now, doesn\u2019t that sound like a \u201cit\u2019s the Bahamas mon\u201d sort of place?\u00a0\"\"<\/a>And a view from the bar.\u00a0 Yes, a good spot to \u201cchat and chill\u201d from. \u00a0\u00a0\"\"<\/a><\/span>And, of course, there are some very helpful signs to be sure you know how far you are from just about anywhere.\u00a0 That\u2019s very comforting. \u00a0\"\"<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s Saturday morning and, FINALLY, the wind has settled down.\u00a0 After a few days of winds in the 20s and all the bumping around that comes with that, it\u2019s wonderful to wake up to what feels, by comparison, like a gentle zephyr.\u00a0 I listened to Chris Parker, the weather router again this morning at 06:30.\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","_s2mail":"","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2890"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2890\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2895,"href":"https:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2890\/revisions\/2895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}