David A Schramm M/V Jenny Current Location (blue pin) Jenny Journey Log -----Original Message----- From: jennyjourney@googlegroups.com [mailto:jennyjourney@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of KI6CEL@Winlink.org Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2009 7:11 AM To: JennyJourney@googlegroups.com Subject: Report From Onboard Jenny Thursday, February 26, 2009 7:09:37 AM Location: Underway Latitude is 18 degrees 23.577 minutes north. Longitude is 69 degrees 29.509 minutes west. Current passage average speed = 6.36, distance = 10.40, duration = 0.00 days 1.00 hours 38.00 minutes. This weather observation was at Thursday, February 26, 2009 7:00:49 AM local time. Observation location: Underway to Isla Saona. Latitude is 18 degrees 23.551 minutes north. Longitude is 69 degrees 29.777 minutes west. The air temperature is 73, and water temperature is 0 degrees fahrenheit. The forecast is Sunny, calm. The current weather is dry. The sky is clear or a few clouds. The wind is 9 knots from the northeast. The visibility is 15 nautical miles. The wave height is 1 feet with 2 foot swells. The barometer is 1020 millibars and steady. Nicholas and I dropped the mooring at Marina Zarpar this morning and headed out. We are on a two part voyage to Samana Bay. Today we are going to an anchorage at Isla Saona. There we will stay overnight and look again at the weather up the east coast of the Dominican Republic. If it looks good, then we will head out around 5:00 PM and do an overnight run up to Samana. I don't want to say I didn't like Boca Chica, but I didn't. It was a vacation town with only a very base culture focused on prostitutes, drinking and the beach. It had no soul, and the only people you could interact with were either visitors endulging in the debauchery or the locals who provided it. There is another people here, the ones that own the sport fishing boats and are white spanish descent. But, they live somewhere out of sight and don't show themselves in town. They show up on the weekends on their yachts, throwing parties while anchored near the marina. I'm hoping Samana is different. The sea is being nice today, and our route goes along the south coast which is pretty well protected from the trade winds and waves. We have the birds up for now and our ETA is around 1:00 PM. I have my tea and had two boiled eggs for breakfast. BTW there are only "free range chickens" here. You see them in every back yard. :-) We're listening to NPR on the sideband radio and just steaming along. Life is good. David Powered by BoatExec http://www.BoatExec.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "JennyJourney" group. To post to this group, send email to jennyjourney@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to jennyjourney+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/jennyjourney?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---