Plan B

Serafina
Rob & Sarah Bell
Tue 8 May 2012 14:10
29:23.57N 71:38.08W

This is really to update any of you actually following our progress and who
may wonder what the hell we are up to when you see our positions plotted on
Google Earth!

The bad news is that the weather is set to get considerably worse than first
feared and also more extended. I will not bore you with the synopsis, but
the new plan is as follows.

We are going to spend the next two days simply sailing up and down where we
are making sure that on Wednesday evening we are well south of 30N and west
of 70W. We are then going to be battered by a gale with wind speeds of 30 -
35 knots with gusts between 40 and 50 knots, the waves are forecast to be
16ft which is going to be very unpleasant. The hope though is that by
remaining to the south and west of the co-ordinates above we might avoid the
squalls, or the worst of them at least.!

Then on Thursday we start sailing for a point 30N 72W which we should aim to
reach on Friday morning. We then hightail it to our entry point to cross the
Gulf Stream at 33.5N 75.15W which we should not approach until Sunday
morning as things stand. We then have part of Sunday and all of Monday to
race the 200+ miles around Cape Hatteras and get into the Chesapeake before
the next system emerges possibly early on Tuesday.

So we have two days to wallow out here before the real fun starts, so time
at least to prepare and plan.