All Systems Go

We have spent the day checking the weather, planning our route, buying more fuel, and checking various systems on the boat. George is currently at the office checking out to give us one less thing to do in the morning. While planning our route we used a combination of Predict Wind, Fast Seas and the Windy app on the iPad. Windy is our new favorite wind forecasting app. It works especially well if you are traveling long distances because you can zoom out and see wind patterns over large distances. George discovered this afternoon that it also has a feature that gives you currents. In addition, you can overlay longitude and latitude as well as tap on the map in any location to get specific coordinates. These features are particularly useful when we are planning to sail in the Gulf Stream. Although we will have our Iridium satellite phone to send and receive emails offshore we won’t have any other internet access. We have taken screenshots of the information we might need while we are underway. If all goes well we will arrive in Beaufort, NC sometime on Monday. 

Map of currents from Windy app.