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| S/V Barefoot Helm Station |
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| S/V Barefoot |
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| 1st nights sunset, northern Key Largo. |
Our journey started out smooth sailing.... broad reach, with almost flat waters, less then 5 knots of wind.... keeping us at a steady 6 knots as we motor-sailed our way north. Two days later, being underway around the clock keeping a rotation of "captaining" 3 hours on, 6 hours off, we made our way to Cape Canaveral where we refueled, topped off our water, and had a hot breakfast ashore. We pulled into the fuel dock at 2am and had to wait until morning when the fuel attendant arrived / fuel dock opened at 8am.
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| Dredging operation at 2am we passed in the channel going into Cape Canaveral. |
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| Cruise ship docked at Cape Canaveral. |
We were once again underway, with the hopes of heading north, going off shore by about 85 nm to catch a ride on the gulf stream to increase our speed so we would arrive in North Carolina within the next 3 days...... as soon as we cleared the channel and were in open waters, raised the main sail, and *whoosh* main sail down.
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| Mainsail head webbing broke loose while undersail |
Our mainsail had an in-mast furling system, and the head of the sail had eventually worked itself loose, where it had cut the webbing over time. We decided to head back to shore to take a chance at getting the sail fixed even though we planned to motor / motor sail most of the way north to make good time, wanted a backup to be able to use all of our sails if necessary......... $100.00 and 8 hours later we were once again underway, leaving the dock at 8pm to continue on our journey.
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| View from my offshore 4am shift. |
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| Waves starting to pick up with the sunrise. |
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| Passing through a bridge in the Carolina's. |
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| S/V Barefoot docked at River Dunes, NC. |
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| S/V Barefoot entering the Harbor at River Dunes. |
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| River Dunes. |
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| Meet the Delivery Crew: Capt. Jon, Wayne, and Capt. Stephanie. |
