We'd been waiting for the sail loft in Lauderdale to refurbish our mainsail and genoa (large jib) since well before we left Lauderdale for Lake Worth. They were finally delivered Wednesday morning; the mainsail was completed, but the genoa was not - apparently a bad couple of weeks at the sail loft. Would have been nice to have left Palm Beach earlier, but what can you do?

We put the genoa up, returned the rental car, and left the marina for one that has diesel. We only needed 66 gallons, but at $4.75 a gallon it was a bunch of money.

We anchored Wednesday night in Lake Worth south of Peanut Island, and after futzing around getting the mainsail hoisted, we finally managed to leave Lake Worth Inlet around 1:30PM yesterday.

It's been fairly uneventful, though we had to motorsail until just a while ago, due to lack of wind. We went through a couple of squalls, one with winds up in the low 30's; funny how the wind can go from 5knots to 33knots in no time!

Once we found the Gulf Stream we were doing 10+ knots consistently, up into the low 11's. We managed 220nm from 1330 yesterday to noon today, an excellent run.

This morning we were overflown by both a Navy jet and helicopter. Later we spotted the aircraft carrier (#71 - anybody want to look that one up?) which called us and requested we scoot around their stern while they were doing aircraft landings and takeoffs. Big honking carrier.

We finally have enough wind to sail, so we turned off the engine a short while ago, and we actually were doing 12 knots under sail. Haven't gone this fast since we came through Hell Gate on the East River in NYC with the tide.

We'll continue on and decide if we want to go all the way around Cape Hatteras and into the Chesapeake without stopping. We'd like to join some fellow Hylas owner's on the Patuxent River this coming Tuesday, though it's going to tight.