20 May 2018
Pohnpei, Micronesia
Today has been very busy preparing for departure tomorrow. The dinghy has been hoisted on deck and secured. Final fueling and provisioning finished. Earlier in the week I cleaned the bottom and the propeller along with fluid changes for Miss Perky. We also had hoisted the main sail and rolled out both handsails to check them.
We have been on a constant weather watch for the last week. Tomorrow was our chosen day though it now appears that the wind will be a bit lighter than forecast earlier in the week. The direction is good and as we're ready there is no sense in waiting. Our course for the first 1500 miles or so is East of North and though lite the we should be able to sail in that direction. Wind speeds are forecast to increase as we move north though still less than 20 kts. Of course that is only the forcast not what we will actually have.
We will be using the PredictWind offshore app for weather routing. It has come highly recommended by others, we'll see.
I do plan on doing updates as we make our way.
We hope to be back in Newport the first part of July
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