Varuna's Travels

Indiantown, located in central Florida, close to Lake Okeechobee, Varuna will spend the next six months on dry dock. Hurricanes have passed over the storage area during the last two years and some boats did not fare to well. Now, they are straped down to ground anchors to help prevent from being shifted during strong winds. Let's hope that Varuna is safe.

I have not painted anti-fouling on the hull for three seasons and I think that the max I can go , is two. If you look at the pics of the hull after 6 months in the water, it had a lot of grass growing. No barnacles however.

Sleep tight Varuna, we will see you in January, 2007

Indiantown, Florida. Home for Varuna for the summer and fall.

From Lake Worth, we anchored at a few beach spots and would remouve the sails and all the parts that have to be tken off the boat to reuce windage in case of a hurricaine.

Then it was slowly on to Indiantown were she will be hauled and stored.

What a difference a day makes! Yesterday the weather was terrible, today, sheer perfection. We slipped out of Lucaya, set the sails, and had a very pleasant sail (and motor) across the gulf stream.
I have included pictures of sailing under the moon and at sunrise as we approach the coast of the USA.
The quality is a bit grainy as they were taken in low light conditions

A lousy sailing day!
Berry islands -Lucaya (Grand Bahama)
Here is our actual track taken off the computer, of our trip. The color is “night-mode” since I captured the screen approx at 23:00hrs.

If you note the time line of 12:00 (noon) you will see a big detour in our track. We were confronted by squalls all around us. Rain, lightning and to top it all, a water-spout.(Tornado on the ocean) Not very pleasant.

By night fall, the weather was still bad and there were still squalls ahead of us, so we made a decision to change our direction and seek shelter at Lucaya.

One is never to enter a port at night, but we had already been there a few times, so we felt comfortable with the entrance over the reef. We arrived at midnight. After a well deserved rum, and a hot shower, we fell asleep like the dead. The plan was to leave the following night for the USA