{"id":77,"date":"2007-02-09T00:46:50","date_gmt":"2007-02-09T00:46:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/2007\/02\/09\/passage-to-bonaire-day-2\/"},"modified":"2025-10-01T17:03:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T17:03:14","slug":"passage-to-bonaire-day-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/?p=77","title":{"rendered":"Passage to Bonaire: Day 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<style type=\"text\/css\">\n.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }\n.flickr-yourcomment { }\n.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }\n.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; }\n<\/style>\n<div class=\"flickr-frame\">\n\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/48817769@N00\/384180659\/\" title=\"photo sharing\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/124\/384180659_0dda5074c9_m.jpg\" class=\"flickr-photo\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\n\t<span class=\"flickr-caption\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/48817769@N00\/384180659\/\">Passage to Bonaire: Day 2<\/a>.<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"flickr-yourcomment\">\n\tThis is yesterdays blog entry that was not sent due to an<br \/>\napproaching squall.  We have since arrived safely in Bonaire<br \/>\nafter a fast and comfortable sail.<\/p>\n<p>A picture of Laura typing the blog entry is also attached.  More<br \/>\ntomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>Feb 7, 2007. 18:00 AST:  position North 12 degrees, 22 minutes;<br \/>\nWest 66 degrees. 24, minutes; course: 279 degrees magnetic;<br \/>\ncurrent speed 7.8 knots.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s nearly sunset now &#8211; on our 2nd day of our 2.5 day trip from<br \/>\nUnion Island to Bonaire.  What&#8217;s it like to sail for 2.5 days<br \/>\nnon-stop?  Well, actually, it has been very nice so far.  Not<br \/>\nscary &#8211; not particularly uncomfortable &#8211; although the boat is<br \/>\nrolling a fair amount from side to side in the swells.  Before<br \/>\ndoing night sails I am typically very scared and nervous, but<br \/>\nhave found, at least on this voyage so far, that once I am out<br \/>\nin the cock-pit at night, with the beautiful stars and the<br \/>\nmoon-lit seas, it is very nice.  The days are short in the<br \/>\nCaribbean &#8211; it is pretty much dark for 12 hours a day, but out<br \/>\non the boat it doesn&#8217;t really seem dark.  First the stars light<br \/>\nup the sky, then the moon rises and everything becomes crystal<br \/>\nclear &#8211; you can see colors on the sails &#8211; and then you see some<br \/>\nphosphorescence on the water.  The sun rises at 6:00 am, and<br \/>\ndoesn&#8217;t get hot til about 9:00.  We have taken turns taking lots<br \/>\nof naps &#8211; sometimes for an hour, sometimes for as long as 3.5<br \/>\nhours.  All in all we end up getting 8 or 9 hours of sleep<br \/>\nduring a 24 hour period &#8211; although it is pretty broken up sleep.<br \/>\nThe sailing conditions were really great for most of the past<br \/>\ntwo days. For a few hours we were sailing between 9 and 11 knots<br \/>\n  &#8211; that is a really great speed for us.  We have two big<br \/>\nheadsails set on poles ( see photo), one of which is our<br \/>\nballooner which is red, white and blue.  The other is the big<br \/>\njib which Rick and Leon helped us set up when they were here.<br \/>\nThey are very beautiful when set out together. They also make<br \/>\nfor very easy downwind sailing &#8211; which is what we are doing now,<br \/>\nas we head almost due West.  We are sailing about 30-50 miles<br \/>\nnorth of a whole string of Venezuelan Islands that we would love<br \/>\nto see, but don&#8217;t have time to stop at.  Right now we are about<br \/>\n300 miles away from Union and have another 130 or so to get to<br \/>\nBonaire.  It will be good to arrive &#8211; but right now we are<br \/>\nenjoying the sea and the air.  We have only seen two boats on<br \/>\nroute &#8211; both large oil tankers &#8211; nicely lit up in our radar &#8211;<br \/>\nand also very visible to the naked eye.  It is interesting to<br \/>\npass another boat in the dark- almost easier to see them at<br \/>\nnight than during the day.  We have been listening to a lot of<br \/>\nmusic on our Ipod Nano&#8217;s and eating good meals &#8211; stuff we<br \/>\nprepared before leaving Union. Amazing how good everything<br \/>\ntastes when you are at sea.<\/p>\n<p>L.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Passage to Bonaire: Day 2. This is yesterdays blog entry that was not sent due to an approaching squall. We have since arrived safely in Bonaire after a fast and comfortable sail. A picture of Laura typing the blog entry is also attached. More tomorrow. Feb 7, 2007. 18:00 AST: position North 12 degrees, 22 &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/?p=77\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Passage to Bonaire: Day 2&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[21,1],"tags":[21],"class_list":["post-77","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-caribbean","category-other","tag-caribbean"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sabbatical3.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}