{"id":5000,"date":"2015-10-23T15:15:33","date_gmt":"2015-10-23T15:15:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/?p=5000"},"modified":"2015-10-23T15:15:33","modified_gmt":"2015-10-23T15:15:33","slug":"were-moving-now-on-our-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/?p=5000","title":{"rendered":"We\u2019re moving now.\u00a0 On our way."},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/del>It\u2019s mid-morning Friday and we are nearly to Montauk having left Deep River at 07:00 this morning.\u00a0 My crew and good friends Roger and Gregg are settle in and it\u2019s a pleasure to have them aboard.\u00a0\u00a0 I have sailed with them both before and have known each of them for many years.<\/p>\n

We are really cooking along with the wind on the port quarter at between 8-9 and sometimes more than 10kts over the ground.<\/p>\n

The last few days of getting Pandora ready to head south have been a whirlwind with a seemingly endless list of chores onboard and at home.\u00a0\u00a0 As I won\u2019t be home for nearly a month, I had to attend to things such as cutting and fertilizing the lawn (yesterday morning actually).\u00a0 Something that I would have loved to put off until I got back.\u00a0 However, the maples had dropped many of their leaves and I can only imagine what the condition of the grass would have been by the time I return in mid-November if I didn\u2019t clean things up prior to my departure.\u00a0 \u00a0Love that yard work stuff\u2026<\/p>\n

Between moving final things aboard and shopping for the last minute groceries, along with yard work, I have to say that I was wondering if life really needed to be this hectic.\u00a0 Brenda for sure feels that way.\u00a0 And, I really didn\u2019t sleep very well last night as I was so keyed up from such a hectic day.\u00a0 However, now that I am aboard and making tracks south toward Hampton, it all seems worth it.<\/p>\n

As is always the case when you step aboard for a long run, we had a bit of a shocker this morning.\u00a0\u00a0 When I turned on all of the instruments to get going, surprise!\u00a0 No autopilot.\u00a0 Not good.\u00a0 However, after a few frantic moments, I realized that the problem might be a loose connection in the instrument pod.\u00a0\u00a0 The bow thruster guys had had the pod open to check wires on the joy stick control and I wondered if perhaps they had just dislodged the power cord from the pilot control.\u00a0 Yup\u2026 Simple fix and we were on our way.\u00a0\u00a0 Whew!<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t even want to think of what I would have done if the problem was serious.\u00a0 Not my first choice to hand steer for 350 miles.<\/p>\n

So, preventers are run, jack lines in place and a cup of hot coffee.\u00a0 Life is good.<\/p>\n

The weather, as I have mentioned in my last post, won\u2019t provide us with favorable winds for the entire run to Hampton.\u00a0 However, today\u2019s grib wind files seem to suggest we might be able to motor\/sail the last 8 hours and still make Hampton prior to any real adverse winds settling in.\u00a0 So, for now, we\u2019ll continue to head for Cape May and consider bearing off as we learn more.<\/p>\n

Heading down the CT River this morning was beautiful.\u00a0 The color is at it\u2019s peak and it was nice to make one more run down the river knowing that I wouldn\u2019t be back till next spring.\u00a0\u00a0 I will be covering a lot of miles between now and May.\u00a0\"OLYMPUS<\/a>Seeing the CT River Museum from the water as we motored by was a beautiful sight.\u00a0 I have been volunteering there for a year or so and I enjoy working with the gang there. \u00a0 Actually, I have to edit a grant application before we get to Hampton as it’s due at the end of the month. \u00a0No rest for the weary.\"OLYMPUS<\/a>We also saw a bald eagle as we passed Hamburg Cove.\u00a0 Is that a good or bad omen for our trip?\u00a0 I am going with \u201cgood\u201d.\u00a0\"OLYMPUS<\/a>Well, I guess that\u2019s about it for now.\u00a0 If things are settled enough, and my Pactor Modem on my SSB radio is working, I will likely do another post on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s mid-morning Friday and we are nearly to Montauk having left Deep River at 07:00 this morning.\u00a0 My crew and good friends Roger and Gregg are settle in and it\u2019s a pleasure to have them aboard.\u00a0\u00a0 I have sailed with them both before and have known each of them for many years. We are really […]<\/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-5000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5000","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=5000"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5004,"href":"https:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5000\/revisions\/5004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}