Getting Ready To Depart Marigot Bay.

We are preparing for departure and is currently focusing on tomorrow morning Friday, but the more I look at the various forecasts, the more doubt I have, as they are all very different and will give courses hundreds of NM apart. This is very confusing and for the last 30 years when I have followed the weather pattern, I have never seen the north Atlantic weather in such a chaotic state. Usually one would expect easterly winds for the first five days and once we would get up along Bermuda latitude, the westerlies would set in. But at the moment there are systems coming not from the usual west, but also from the east and in between there is no wind. We can thus expect some easterly and northerly winds before we can get to the westerly winds. We also can expect to have to motersail for way more NM than I will like. But if we wait much longer, we can't be sure that the weather will improve. What a dilemma.

Today we will prepare New Dawn for the crossing at least to the Azores. 

The "To Do List" is getting, almost, empty, 

This is my reserve cooking gas bottle, which we use when we are not sailing, so we don't use the two permanently installed gas bottles, which we use while at sea. 

We have 120 litre diesel on deck and thus carry a total of 1.320 litres.

The fishing gear is installed and we hope to catch more fish than we did coming up to St Martin - where we caught nothing, except for Sargassa Weed.

This is our on board greenhouse, with a Pothos plant.

The fridge is full....

And so are the nets.

And the freezer.

And my bedroom is also used for storage.

Stored away.

And more.

More.

Even more.

Homemade Gnocchi.

A la Gorgonzola.

Drying Teak Deck Bread.

Last night's sunset.