Call Me the Breeze

Well, it's that time. Mary and I are casting off at civil daylight tomorrow morning to make the transit from New Orleans to Pensacola, so this may well be the last blog until the race is over.

It'll take us about 16-18 hours to get to Pensacola, where we'll tie up at the Pensacola Yacht Club. Then we'll do our provisioning, do some odds and ends, get our dodger back on the boat, and make last minute preparations. Monday night our crew: Anjula, Erica, and Mark will join us, and we'll spend the better part of Tuesday doing the fun and necessary business of safety orientation, watchstander training, and man overboard drills. Then off to the skipper's meeting and to bed to await the exciting days to follow.

We're close enough to race time that we can look at the weather forceasts with confidence. You can too, click here, then scroll down til you see the Gulf and click the big middle portion. The wind is going to start building out of the South, by Thursday up to 30 knots or more. And since the wind doesn't like to travel alone, she'll be bringing somewhere between 5-16 ft seas, to be determined. And the best part is that we get to head straight into it. For four days.

The Coronas are going to taste especially sabrosa upon our arrival. At a minimum we will publish a post notifying everyone of our safe arrival, and don't forget to chart our progress here:

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