Home. Back in Seattle, after nearly two months away, sailing across the Atlantic. Weekend at home with Colin and the dogs. And today, Back to work, back to commuting, meetings, VTC's,the office. It's...
And so we are docked in Fort Lauderdale. We cleared in using the CBP ROAM app, bought a DTOPS decal (a whole separate story, let’s just summarize that this time saving option took over an hour...
Into the harbor, right, wait for a bridge to open, through it, follow the channel, fast enough to make the next bridge, right, left, left, on, turn around, and dock.
As we got into shore, at the last moment a cruise ship pulled out across our path. We figured we’d let it have its right of way.
Rory and Dunbar, once more, we’re tying off the main halyard, and generally preparing for, usually the night’s sailing, but in this case coming into harbor.
After almost 7,000nm and mere hours from the end, someone is longing to be home.
Coming up on and going past Miami, we had 20+ knots of headcount, which also drove straight into the Gulf Stream, making for some nasty chop. Out of a dozen attempts this one is I think the only one...
And, about 7,000nm after leaving St. Francis, from Vingilótë we could finally see the first glimpse of the West.