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S   00 o 02 Minutes W 88 o 47 Minutes We are approximately 100 miles from Galapagos and have crossed the equator. (More on that in a later journal entry.) For now, here is the yesterday’s journal entry. Journal Entry from Sunday, 1600hrs EST, March 28, 2004: N    00 o 38.376′ W 087 o 18.531′…

Friday, March 26 2004: N  01o55.6′ W 084o18.9′ Hello Landlubbers, Today has been very nice! Friday afternoon, approximately 400 miles from the Galapagos Islands (North 01 degrees, 55.6 minutes, West 084 Degrees, 18.9 minutes for those of you with charts. The spinnaker is up, the sun is shinning, and we are moving along at a…

Thursday, 1640hrs EST, March 24, 2004: N  04o04.249′,  W 080o56.914′ (East of Malpelo Island, Pacific Ocean) By approximately 0445 Monday morning on the day of our transit through the Panama Canal, Lillian was anchored back out in the “flats” and the Panama Canal Advisor had jumped on board from one of the threatening looking battered…

Saturday, March 20, 2004: N  09o20.942′ W 079o40.374′ (Panama Canal Yacht Club, Colon, Atlantic end of the Canal) Kay, Dick Hiatt, Matthew and I are sitting in the Restaurant/Bar at the Panama Canal Yacht Club. The air conditioning feels like diving into a cold pool. The beer is $3.50 a pitcher. The bar is shaped…

Wednesday,  March 10, 2004: N  18o16.976′,  W 078o20.796′ (Leaving Negril Jamaica) Last night Peter, Kay, and I had a taxi take us back to Montego Bay to clear customs. Kay stayed to catch a flight and we picked up Peter’s dad, Chris, who will join us for the sail to and through The Panama Canal.…

Sunday, March 7, 2004: N    18o15.224′,  W 078o21.870′ (Mooring off of Rick’s Cafe, Negril Jamaica)                                                                       As indicated by the latitude and longitude we have moved well south, and the Lillian B. is now in Jamaican waters. More specifically, we are in Negril, which has metamorphosed into the “MTV,” spring break capital of Jamaica. Fifteen…

Sunday, February 29, 2004: N    23o38.545′ W 074o50.918′ (Ft. Nelson, Rum Cay) Right now it is 6:00 am, Sunday morning, with the crew sleeping after a well deserved rum ration (more precisely, Dick’s Bushmill Irish whiskey) and a full night’s sleep. We arrived yesterday at Rum Cay at daybreak after 48 hours of sailing from…

Wednesday, February 25, 2004: N    27o31.087′      W 078o38.186′ (Port Lucaya, Grand Bahamas Island) We have arrived in the Bahamas! Today and yesterday were very long days. The trip over was eventful and served as a good shakedown trip. The training started with the exit from the Manatee Pocket, during which time the autopilot engaged, locking…

Monday, February 23, 2004: N    27o08.998′, W 080o11.629′ Today was a three-steps-forward, two-steps-back sort of day. In the morning, Mike, the electrician at Hinckley, installed the stereo. Unfortunately, when we tried to insert some Crosby, Stills and Nash, the new unit proved to be defective. We set that problem aside and after verifying that the…

Saturday, February 21, 2004: N    27o08.998′, W 080o11.630′ Lillian sits in her slip at the Hinckley Yard in the Manatee Pocket in Stuart Florida. At low tide she settles into the silt. The engine has been serviced, including the replacement of a disintegrated cooling water impeller and equally disintegrated sacrificial zincs in the heat exchanger.…