Waiting for a weather window so we could leave for Newport tried our patience, not that Bermuda is a bad place to get stuck.
With wind at 15 knots from just forward of the beam, we sail along at 8.5 knots. It can stay like this all the way to Newport, we decide.
A warm, beautiful sunset, but the clouds ahead presage the cold front that we’ll sail through later.
The weather charts present a messy scenario as we sit waiting for a window to leave Bermuda.
The wind’s picked up and the water is cold as we near latitude 40 degrees; ashore they’ll have frost tonight. Katie Goettsche keeps the big Swan tracking homeward.
