Well I’ve had a bit of time to go through some of my shots. I still have to go through my shots from Antigua. I also need to add these shots to the posts when/where they happened, but I haven’t had time yet. I’ve also added 2 new shots to the rotation up top. Enjoy:

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OK, I’ve now had enough time to add Mom and Dad’s shots from their cameras to their gallery, here are their shots:

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I finally had some time to figure out how to make a google map with multiple lat/lon locations on it. Google has no problems if you can drive somewhere, but once you give it locations that are in/on the water, it can’t get from one to another. Well today I had a bit of time to sit down and figure out how to do it with some custom maps. They should be easily viewed by anyone here by simply clicking on the “Location” tab at the top. You can also click here to get there. Please leave a comment if it’s not working.

Dad sent me a copy of the watch list and asked me to post it.  It gets pretty confusing if you’ve never stood a watch before.  When you look at it, you can easily see when any one person is up.  Remember each person is up for 4 hours.  2 with the person listed before them, and 2 with the person listed after them.  You then have 6 hours off where you can sleep, read, fish, help the “on” crew or anything else within reason. 

They are officially underway! I went down to help the crew off the dock at 4pm tonight. They we taking care of a few last minute details. I managed to spy 2 dishes of apple crisp, so I guess it’s safe to say there is no need to feel sorry for them on Thursday. I helped get rid of the power cord and dock lines. They officially left at 5:22pm eastern. The wind was around 15 (but it felt like more in the ~40º temperature) but from behind, so they’ll have an excellent sail tonight. The moon is also close enough to full that it was nice and bright. Should make for some wonderful watches tonight. I really wish I could have gone, but with Nikki pregnant, Thanksgiving, and Nikki’s birthday I had to stay home.

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