We had 4 wonderful days sailing from Hampton to St. George's, Bermuda with several visits by dolphins and a submarine surfacing on the way out of Hampton. After last year's VERY ROUGH passage from Hampton to St. Thomas, we decided to try a stop in Bermuda on the way to the Caribbean. Although the first day was a little rough crossing the Gulf Stream, we had 4 days of reaching with the breeze between 8 to 15 knots on the same tack the whole way. It was even calm enough for the girls to have pedicures on the 2nd day. By the way, the girls outnumbered the boys on this passage - we had Betsy & Bob and Pia along with me and Bryan. Very fun! Betsy won the arrival pool with her passage time estimate of 95 hours.
Passage Statistics - 690 nautical miles, 95 hours for 7.3 average boat speed, 24.7 motoring hours
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| The Joli Biker Gang at the Salty Dawg party prior to departure from Bluewater Yachting Center |
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| Betsy & Bob, Bryan & Polly, Pia |
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| More Salty Dawgs in Hampton, VA |
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| Submarine and escort off of Norfolk |
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| Very cool to see the sub! |
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| It was a little chilly for our 5 pm departure from Hampton |
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| Bob having the good juju departure beer |
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| Happy Captain! |
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| Our new autopilot did a great job steering. |
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| There were storms around us a couple times but we only had a little bit of rain. |
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| More rain on the horizon |
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| The nights were dark as the moon was waning and we only had a small crescent moon the first couple of nights. |
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| Plenty of time for reading |
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| Joli arriving at the Customs Dock in St. George's, photo credit John Gardner |
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| Customs Dock - photo credit to our new Bermuda friend John Gardner |
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Waiting for our arrival Covid tests - the Bermuda Health Department and Customs were very efficient, friendly and helpful.
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