I’ve always heard that sailing on the open ocean can really mess with your dreams.  It’s no joke.  Somehow in the few hours of sleep I get each day the noises of Jargo working in the waves become voices of people and things.  The dreams have a very strange Alice in Wonderland quality to them and I never know who is going to show up from one nap to the next.  Jargo and I even had a conversation.  You think that’s crazy?  Turns out Jargo isn’t really a horse like the one from my great grandpas story, but a zebra like animal.  At least she was in my dream.  On the flip side, the dream Jargo told me that her name had always been Jargo and she’d just been waiting on me to acknowledge it.  Crazy or not, I’ll take that as a good sign.

The sunrise was incredibly beautiful this morning.  The winds are around 10 knots and fluky, but mostly out of the NE.  Ordinarily I’d set all sail as I’ve done and just let her glide along.  Unfortunately, there is a big gale coming up behind me and I am doing everything in my power to get to safe anchor before it arrives.  For now that means motorsailing the rest of the way to Isla.  I hailed a cargo ship this morning, the first I’d seen in three days, and he informed me of the pending storm.  I was worried enough to get on the sat phone and call into Commanders Weather for a professional update.  Looks like winds will continue to build to 20 – 25 through tomorrow morning then increase to 30+ sometime midday as the front passes.  It’s a big front, but 20 – 30 is what I’ve had for most of this trip so I’ve got my plan together to handle it.

I like passage making.  Oh yeah, no contact with s/v soel for 48 hours.  Can someone please check their spot page and let me know their position?  I think it can be found at www.sailing-soel.com.  Thanks again for all the SAT TXT messages.  They are great entertainment out here.  I am off to study the approach chart for Isla.  What a way to live, huh?

Lee Winters
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