[C38] Hello from SMX! (wasRe: Hello from Bermuda)

[david at dlrfilms.com]

We were anchor down in Simpson Bay SMX about 1AM this morning.

The tiller was AWESOME! Makes the boat better in every way. Words MUCH
better with the Aries.

Bermuda to SMX was 9 days. 1 hard day. 1 day of motoring. 3 days of light,
bad direction frustrating sailing, and 4 days of perfection.

I beat a fish to death with a winch handle and ate it for lunch.

I swam in 15,000 ft of water.

I got sea sick for only the second time in my life. (The first being
Montauk to Bermuda)

I (finally) satisfied 30 years of curiosity and longing to find out "What
is it like out there?"

And the boat did great.

Not many photos, but I'll share what I have soon!

-David
S/V INTEMPERANCE
Simpson Bay, SMX

> Glad to hear the trip went well...how'd you like the tiller?
> Steve C-38 #64
>
> On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 8:18 AM, <david at dlrfilms.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello from Bermuda!
>>
>> INTEMPERANCE left Montauk on the afternoon of Thursday, October 28 and
>> arrived in Bermuda on the morning of Thursday, November 5.
>>
>> We had five days of sailing hard on the wind, including crossing the
>> Gulf
>> Stream on a beat, triple reefed. Didn't mind wind so much, but pounding
>> into the short seas, hour after hour, day after day wasn't so much fun.
>>
>> One day was so light we motored for a few hours. The one day we had the
>> wind behind us it was about Force 6, and all we had up was a bit of our
>> mostly rolled up genoa and we were still doing sixes and sevens in front
>> of a 12 foot sea.
>>
>> We've been spending the last week fixing/changing things that broke or
>> didn't work how we thought they would. Mostly squared away now and
>> waiting
>> for a fair weather chance to sail to the islands.
>>
>> Bermuda is lovely. I'd count the effort and expense to get here as
>> worthwhile.
>>
>> -David
>> S/V Intemperance
>>
>>
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