Some Photos from the Crossing

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Here are a few photos (sorry about the quality of them) to give you a very small view of what it was like during our crossing.

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Photos

Leaving St. Martin
The bridge on the French side of St. Martin that we exited through just before leaving to cross the Atlantic.

You can see the weather
The weather makes itself very obvious when you are out at sea as seen by this photo.

No Straight Line Sailing for Us
Sailing is definitely not traveling in a straight line. This photo of our chartplotter shows the crazy path we took when we were in 1 of 2 squalls that we went through. The dotted line you see is the “straight” path and the red line is what we actually did! Needless to say we went around in a circle when the storm was overhead.

Moonlight
It was hard to capture the amount of moonlight we saw as it shown down on the ocean during our night watches. It made it surprisingly easy to see while on night watch.

The ocean can be flat
It was surprising to see how flat the ocean can be as seen here while at other times the waves were 15 feet tall.

Sunrise
One of many beautiful sunrises that we got to see while crossing the Atlantic.

One of many
Just one of many beautiful sights you see while at sea.

Stairs or workbench?
Today the stairs became a workbench so Bob could grind off a point on a screw he needed for one of his projects.

Galley or Workshop?
For now the galley has been turned over to become a workshop for Bob. Everything seems to have a double purpose on the boat, even the galley!

Up the Mast While at Sea
Yes, you have seen photos of Bob up the mast before but this time was very different as you can see the sail is up and we are sailing while Bob went up the mast to secure the radar dome bracket that decided to crack.

what was that speed??
This shows that the hull speed of the boat was 8.7 with wind only at 16.7 knots – not a bad speed at all!

Captain Bob
Captain Bob with his foul weather bibs, long sleeve shirt and his trusty PFD (personal flotation device) as it getting colder.

You need boots too!
To complete the wardrobe you also need sea boots as shown by Janice. They really need to go under the leg of the bib but the seas weren’t rough so not a problem

Ready for anything
Bob “suiting” up for a squall or rain shower – hard to tell sometimes at night what you might be getting so need to be prepared. The outfit always includes a trusty headlamp with red & white light for night time.

Waves rolling under the boat
It is hard to tell from the photo but when you looked out front you would see waves breaking higher than the side of the boat – luckily they didn’t cause us any problems.

Another Flying Fish
One of many flying fish “caught” by Tsamaya. You needed to check the deck every morning to see if you had any so you could throw them back into the sea.

Rainbow Sighting
The last day at sea we got to see this beautiful rainbow – seemed to be a good sign!

An island under that cloud
It was hard to see but we actually got to see the island under that cloud when we were 18 miles out from shore. It poked out of the cloud for a short time and then we didn’t see it again until you were about a mile from it.

Land Ho!
The island of Flores comes in to view – this is definitely “land ho”

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The pictures have a quality that matches the conditions...
they are great! You didn't mention anything about trash at sea. Did you see much?