Arrived Bermuda - June 7th 2009


We arrived in St. George's Bay yesterday at about 2.30 Bermuda time - which we discovered is about 2 hours ahead of the time we were going by for the past 10 days. The sun rising at 3.45am should have tipped us off, and we kept marvelling at that - funny what 2 tired minds don't work out. It didn't matter anyway.

We've not seen anything yet, but we already love the place. We are anchored along with about 50 other transient boats, very close to the St. George's Dinghy and Sports Club, who welcome all guests. Our arrival has coincided with the Tall Ships festival and race, hence the picture above of the Bounty as it arrived in the harbour yesterday.

Last night we enjoyed the company of friends Jan and Yolanda from SV Saudade, a boat we have met a few times along the way. They leave tomorrow for Holland. They are not enjoying the long legs much and are looking forward to taking their boat Saudade home. We also enjoyed quite alot of beer and wine, as we don't drink at all during passages this is something we really look forward to.

A comment on the trip here - in general it was the best sailing we have had since leaving Canada. The winds and waves were pretty much always just right. We tried various sail configurations and found that Moondancer was most happy with 15 - 20 knots abeam with double reef main, full genoa, full staysail and mizzen. She just sailed along doing about 6 - 7 knots and seemed to be purring. After what we have been putting her through this made us very happy. Just to know that nothing was hurting her - or us. Times like this need to happen to reinforce why we are doing this thing.

Comments

Anne said…
Hi

Fantastic you have had a wonderful trip to Bermuda with beam winds and a good ship! We have followed you on the shiptrak each day with 100 nm runs. We wish we were with you, but will see you at Christmas.

Lots of love from us

Anne and Dick
"Full & By"
June 8, 2009 at 6:40 AM
Unknown said…
Happy to see you again here in Bermuda.
I hope we'll met in Azores.
And remember you'll be welcome in Dijon to have a Burgundy wine degustation. Well if you feel ready to abandon Moondancer for a couple of days in Marseille, Brest, La Rochelle or another French harbour.
June 9, 2009 at 10:54 AM
Agatha Pace said…
Great blog I enjoyed reading
May 26, 2022 at 4:19 PM
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