{"id":7220,"date":"2017-05-14T21:27:47","date_gmt":"2017-05-15T02:27:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/?p=7220"},"modified":"2017-05-14T21:27:47","modified_gmt":"2017-05-15T02:27:47","slug":"on-our-way-monday-pandoras-homeward-bound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sailpandora.com\/?p=7220","title":{"rendered":"On our way Monday. Pandora’s homeward bound."},"content":{"rendered":"

After all the weeks of planning we are going to head out from Tortola on Monday for home. \u00a0 It’s been a whirlwind of activity over the last few days with chores to get Pandora ready and having crew arrive but it’s time to head home.<\/p>\n

My original plan was to head out on the 17th but the weather is very iffy for then so I have opted to leave a few days earlier with the fleet.<\/p>\n

The big problem is that if I were to wait a few more days I’d run into heavy squalls on our second or third days out, hit a much longer windless patch of perhaps two or more days of motoring near Bermuda and run the risk of being clobbered by a front that is expected to head off of the NE coast around the 26th as we approached CT. \u00a0All of which sounds like more work than fun.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, because of this change, moving our departure up by two days, one of my crew George, won’t be here in time to leave with us. It’s a total bummer but I guess that weather and safety trumps just about everything else when it comes to passage making.<\/p>\n

Anyway, we still have a few chores to do in the morning but should be underway by noon. \u00a0I’ll be sending out position reports to this site which you can access at this link<\/a>. \u00a0You can also right click on any particular position report and see how fast we were going when the tracker sent out the “ping” to the server.<\/p>\n

I expect that our trip should be relatively uneventful with the exception of the squalls and will probably involve a day or more of motoring when the wind gets light. \u00a0But hey, that’s a lot more appealing than the gales that we experienced on the way down in January.<\/p>\n

So, you can track us a number of ways but I am not certain that the rally page will have us on it as I have had difficulty in getting that set up with all the last minute changes in our plans. \u00a0Anyway, I wrote about the tracking options in a prior post<\/a>. \u00a0You can check it out at this link.<\/p>\n

Underway on Monday. \u00a0Finally! \u00a0Wish us luck.<\/p>\n

I’ll be writing more about how things are going most days while we are underway.<\/p>\n

Yes, we are leaving and it’s going to be good to be homeward bound.<\/p>\n

Details to come. \u00a0Yes, that’s true.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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