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.

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