We arrived Treasure Cay for the last time on Thursday May 12th, Captain Mike Bancroft, my crew Bob Clark, Ed Ballard and myself. We spent Friday preparing and provisioning the boat for off shore, reviewing the weather forecast and route from Commanders and going over our watch schedule and safety procedures. We left Treasure Cay at sunrise on Saturday morning. We made great time off shore using the front side of a low pressure cold front that was moving up the East coast. Max SOG 11.2 kts, best day distance 177 nm, totally 952 miles in 7 days. We encountered some heavy weather with 12-15 ft. seas, rain squalls, severe lightening and 30-40 mph winds but the boat and crew performed exceptionally well. Both Eddie and myself caught fish and Eddie won the "how much fuel did we use" pool with 63 gallons. The bad weather persisted up the entire East coast. We cleared U.S. Customs by telephone in route on Friday morning and we made landfall at Atlantic Highlands, N.J. on Friday afternoon around 2:30 pm. We continued up through N.Y. harbor, the East River and into the Long Island Sound Friday night and arrived Guilford, CT. safe and sound amidst dense fog early Saturday morning.
You can view our course recorded by the SPOT transponder at:
http://www.spotadventures.com/trip/view/?trip_id=255169.
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