Daily Update

Champlain
George & Sam Chandler
Thu 10 Jun 2010 12:50
33:27.775N 066:47.270W
 
It is a beautiful sunny morning and we finally have the sails out after running on the engine for the past 22 hours. 
We cast off from Hamilton around 10:00 to motor about two hours over to St. Georges where we cleared customs at 12:15 and headed almost back to where we came from but about five miles further off shore on the outer side the reefs that surround Bermuda before setting a course west north west.  
 
Our course is northwest at 300.  The wind is on our port beam at 20 kts and we are doing between 8 and 9 kts of speed. We will continue to move west for most of the day, but expect headwinds to force a course change by night fall. 
 
All are well and the adventure is truely incredible. Over five hundred miles from the continent, the sky last night was like nothing I have ever seen. Sleeping; well that is a different story, that is going to take either some getting used to or pure exhaustion. 
 
We will check in as we can,
 
George