Fickle winds and currents forced Ocean
Watch unplanned stops in French Guiana
and Brazil to pick up fuel. It takes lots of
Jerry jugs to fill her tanks.
Photo David Thoreson
Baffin Island and into Pond Inlet.
Icebergs in the Davis Strait posed a
new, different icy threat, but the dozens
the crew passed were easily spotted
by eye and radar and presented no
major problems. In the Labrador Sea,
a three-day gale whipped up 20-foot
seas fueled by 30-40 knot breezes, and
Ocean Watch recorded her fastest speed
of the trip, a sporty 17.5 knots.
After stops in Newfoundland and
Nova Scotia, it was on to the U.S. East
Coast and calls in Boston; Newport,
R.I.; New York City; Charleston, S.C.; refuge with several unplanned stops in time for the Mexico and the West Coast
and Miami. The crew’s luck held on an French Guiana and northern Brazil to of the U.S.A.
easy trip to San Juan, Puerto Rico, and take on fuel and regain their senses, or The voyage continues. The halfway
afterwards they enjoyed a lazy stop in at least what was left of them. mark is in the rear-view mirror. Seattle,
the Caribbean island of St. Lucia. Finally, however, they made here we come.
Then things got difficult. it around the bulge of Brazil and
Headwinds, searing heat, jarring set a southbound course in gentle To follow their daily progress around
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