Yeah, they’re NOT in any danger WHAT SO EVER from the tropical depression that’s out in the Atlantic right now (it made our local RI news). It is the reason they stopped in Bermuda, but they stopped so they could slip out behind it and everything is going exactly as planned. They’re sailing along in about 25kt of wind, and they’ve put 204 miles in in the last 24 hours. They’re flying along making “9s” over the bottom most of the time. They’re now saying they’ll be home “sometime Saturday” but they’re thinking after dark (the GPS says as early as noon when they’re really flying). It’s a bit squally at times now and Pete and Nancy finally got wet on a watch today. I guess they had 9 squalls on the radar (the rain shows up just like on the weather channel) and 2 actually got them wet. No big deal, but they’d managed to miss getting wet until that point. They think they’ll be in the stream at around 6am and through it in around 12 hours.

Their current position is 35.29N 69.09W.

Well, the sat phone is now working for data, but somehow the Mac has it’s auto update turned on, so as soon as it sees a data connection, that hogs everything basically blocking their ability to send an email. So you’re likely stuck with me blogging whatever I get called with for the rest of the trip…

Well, they’re at 34.11N 68.17W. That’s in roughly 16,700 feet of water. Yes, sixteen thousand, seven hundred FEET! So they better not drop anything important. They had a school of dolphin around the boat yesterday. They left Bermuda at 6am (getting up at 5am to do so). They’re expecting to be in Rhode Island “sometime Saturday”. They’re thinking they’ll be crossing the gulf stream at some point tomorrow. Also, the guys took the usual case of beer up the hill to BHR making the rookie (Ruleo) carry it up the hill.

Sorry for the short message, but it was left on my voicemail at work today as my desk is getting moved so my phone was out of service.