Screen capture from our B&G Zeus 12 navigation system, showing a screen John requested to keep easy track of our progress. DESTination is Kinsale, Ireland; DTD is Distance to Destination in nautical miles. DSTWTR is the distance through the water we have advanced since we left Fort Lauderdale, not necessarily in a straight line.
SOG, or current Speed Over Ground, is expressed in knots, and is equivalent to 12.4 kms/h; yes, it is slow going in a sailboat!
Peregrinus now has a satellite-enabled Wi-Fi hotspot: an Iridium GO!. Through this device, we are able to post entries to this blog from any location on the planet, and chat with friends via SMS. This is the first post we are sending through the Iridium satellite constellation, so it is going from our current location in Fort Lauderdale to whichever of the 66 Iridium satellites happens to be flying above our heads at this moment at an altitude of 781 kms; this satellite then forwards the message to sister Iridium satellites until it reaches one that happens to be orbiting at that moment within sight of one of Iridium's downlink gateways.
We chose to purchase an "unlimited internet" subscription to the Iridium service, so we should be able to post regularly as we cross the Atlantic. Now, let's not get too excited about this "unlimited internet": its throughtput speed is about 1/20th of the internet speed you got when you last used with a dialup modem just before you switched to an internet broadband connection. So please do not expect to see any video, and most messages will probably be text only.
As we approach the end of our stay in Fort Lauderdale, we celebrate the beauty of the place and friends we have made here
The Captain and the Seaman sailed the factory demonstrator Renaissance, an Amel 55, from Fort Lauderdale to Miami today.
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––– Carl Jung
The Alférez in Fort Lauderdale. 20 January 2015. Nokia N9.
Peregrinus was hauled out and put on the hard this morning, via 88-ton crane, for regularly scheduled maintenance: antifouling paints, protective zincs, bow thruster, propeller, c-drive transmission. An existing thru-hull orifice will be resized in preparation for installation of ForwardScan.
It will be a week or so before the boat is back in the water.
———Carl Jung
The Alférez, dreaming.
Peregrinus is back in Palm Beach. 5 January 2015. iPhone 4S.
Jean Ribault originally named the island after the month of May as he landed on it in the third day of that month in 1562. The Franciscans who colonized it from 1573 called it Isla de Santa María. When Oglethorpe scouted it in 1735, he named it after George II's daughter, Amelia, and by this name is the isle known to this day.
Fernandina was founded on Amelia Island in 1811 under the Leyes de Indias of 1680 and named after Fernando VII, who at the time was an involuntary guest of Napoleon at the Château de Valençay.
The Seaman's nephews, sister and brother-in-law joined the crew for Christmas. Here the nephews take the Peregrinus kayak for a jaunt in the storied Fernandina riverfront.
27 December 2014. iPhone 6 Plus.
Port Royal Sound was named in 1562 by Jean Ribault, who founded a short-lived colony at the bequest of the French admiral Gaspard de Coligny. Port Royal Sound is thus the second oldest surviving French place-name in the U.S.
One of the shores of Port Royal Sound is Hilton Head island, so named after himself by William Hilton in 1663. Here we interrupt this little bird's nap as we disembark at Hudson's for happy hour.
12 December 2012. iPhone 4S.
Related: Port Royal, Nova Scotia
Dolphins like to come to the bow of moving ships and ride the bow wave. These guys hanged around the bow of Peregrinus for a while as we were traveling to south to Charleston on November 29.
