We're off the coast of Florida - close to Boca Raton - and I just got off watch. There was a mean easterly blowing at thirty knots when I went up at midnight and after half an hour of position reports and abstracts, and updating the gps with a new route (no Providence Passage, yes … Continue reading Blogging in bed
Month: March 2014
Missed Connection
I was supposed to crew up last Saturday, but when I got food poisoning the night before, I was so incapacitated that I missed the boat altogether; I had to spend three extra days in Jax in a hotel room but made the best of it by making time for dinner with a favorite friend … Continue reading Missed Connection
Celestial II
I came back to Seattle on the first of March to take celestial navigation for the second time at PMI, because even though I took it once before more than two years ago, by the time I was ready to take license exams in the fall of '12 I had forgotten everything I had learned … Continue reading Celestial II