En Route New London, CT 41°17.6N, 71°51.6W

I left Newport this morning, single handing towards New London, Connecticut. Right now I'm abeam Block Island heading west at 7.2 knots, riding the current beginning to flood into Long Island Sound. We're on our way!

It's been an eventful few weeks, the details of which will have to wait until some other time. For now, I think we're almost ready to head out to Bermuda and the Caribbean. We've got new storm sails, Spectra halyards, a watermaker and a liferaft (and ropes, books, clothes and foul weather gear everywhere). A few last minute jobs, most importantly food and a mounting bracket for our Jordan Series Drogue.

Given I'm single handing, I should probably keep a lookout rather than updating this (in truth, I do pop up every few minutes, and I am watching the radar and chartplotter in front of me) but there's one cool thing I've added to this site that I wanted to tell you about.

If you look in the top right corner, there is a new section called LINKS. Here there is a link to YOTREPS (Yacht Reports - see "where are we...") a website that superimposes our position on one of Google's maps. The exciting thing here is that we can update it via our single-sideband radio, so we can continue to send position reports even though we're well out of internet range. From here on in our access to the net will be infrequent, and certainly only when we are anchored at some destination.