Expected departure and arrival dates

Hi all - hope that you are all enjoying a nice weekend - long one in Canada! (Happy Birthday, Canada)

Anyway, got a call from Dad this morning. He is a bit frustrated that the island's infrastructure has not allowed him to get online and respond to some of the comments and check his e-mail. He was able to get a connection on the first day, but since was not on the 'net. Too bad too, he says he has some good picts to liven up the blog, all in due time. He also mentioned that all the interac machines were down on the island yesterday too!

So - on to the update. he has received and installed the radar, and some seals for the stabilizer (although he thinks they are not the correct ones), but is waiting on a potentiometer (position sensor) for the stabilizer. He hopes to have that today and installed allowing them to leave first thing tomorrow. He will be shoving off very early our time, so I won't be posting a real time departure if he goes. The trip is estimated to take 8 days, so if he leaves tomorrow he figures next Tue he should be in England.

I'll let you know when I do!
MGBWU

Happy Anniversary

Just wanted to take a few minutes to wish my folks a happy anniversary. They are unfortunately spending this one apart, but Dad is suppose to be on the water again soon and they will meet again in Holland in a few weeks. They can celebrate then! To anyone else that shares this day as a special one, have a wonderful day!

Brad

Stay in Horta

Hi all - got an update from Dad this afternoon. He reported that they will be docked in Horta until later this week depending upon the arrival of parts. The new radar and stabilizer are not there yet, and when they arrive they will need to be installed. Dad's internet connection is not as good as he had hoped, so unless he finds another "hot spot" to connect to, I will continue the updates.

Brad

Made it to Horta

I'm not sure when Dad will get to posting on his blog as he has some repairs and such to attend to so I thought I would let everyone know he arrived at 15:00 as planned. Mom said he waited out side the harbour and timed his arrival so if anyone watching on the live webcam could see him. Apparently a few people did see him (could you post a comment here if you did see him).
MGBWU

Arrival time update

Got a message early this morning that the new eta for Horta is 15:00 or 3:00pm. Dad figures that he will be walking funny for a while after such a long time on the water. I'm sure he will recover! Dad will probably be the next to post to this Blog, and I wll take over again once he is at sea.
Brad

Web Cam

I found a site for a webcam that my show le Reve coming in, if you're watching at the right time and the webcam is actually live, real time. Try this link and use the drop down menu in the middle to choose Horta, Azores
It doens't look live to me, but I'm blogging from a borrowed (old) computer which is a bit on the slow side...
good luck
Brad

New arrival time Horta

Hi all - I just got some news from Dad that he figures on arrival in Horta at 17:00 Sunday June 22. There was a bit of a miscomunication in one of his txt messages 22 hrs was actually June 22nd. Sorry to anyone who was concerned that they should have been in harbour by now, but are still on route!
The map is updated, but I was having some tech. difficulty, so the blue line was not updated. The actual spot they are is here
I will post tomorrow the updated ETA at Horta.
MGBWU