Statistics, damn statistics & even more lies....

We began by heading up Island

Just for interest, we’ve calculated a few of our “so far” 09 miles:

Caribbean: Trinidad to Culebra, Spanish Virgins – 638nm (130hrs)

Bahamas: Culebra to West End – 1075nm (215.5hrs)

Gulf Stream Crossing: West End to West Palm Beach - 55nm (8.5 hrs)

Atlantic ICW: West Palm Beach to Norfolk - 927nm (153hrs)

Chesapeake Bay: Norfolk to Deltaville - 96nm (14hrs)

Grand Total this year 09:   2791nm – that’s some sailin’, folks!…

Then took an ICW tour through Florida to Chesapeake Bay
in Virginia.  Whoo hoo!  Map source

Of course, with our few misadventures and different stops than those planned (who could bypass Montserrat?), our schedule has taken longer than anticipated.  We will only see a little of lower Chesapeake Bay this year before laying up WJ3 in Deltaville.  

Still, that leaves plenty more for next year’s adventures! 

Proud Carolinas (Fort Sumter)

Just a reminder about our (almost) real-time tracker.  That's the last link over on your right, folks.   You do need Google Earth to be able to see it but we've been plotting our GPS positions on a world map as way points (on a sailing course) or as stops along the way (eg anchorages, moorings, marinas etc.).  Yes, I know that sounds really boring but you can actually zoom right down and get up almost as close as we were to these places. Smell the salt in the air, even!

Land Ho! The Industrial entry to Norfolk

Some of our postions are a wee bit out - a discrepancy between GE & the GPS I'm afraid - and we've not had the chance to correct them all.  At one stage, one of our flags was not far from Mumbai (Bombay)...  That was not a computer error!  Our poor mother thinks her kids are not only runaway sailors but Krishna ashram devotees too...