Passage, passage, passage- I just want to sleep more than 3 hours, Please!

This is one of those blogs that I know we will not get a lot of sympathy for, but here goes my rant about lack of sleep. Glenn and I love to sleep and boy we can both sleep, 10 hours with out any problem. When we are on a passage and only get to sleep 3 hours we can just hear the other one saying- oh no please don’t make me get up and take my watch.

I know it was just a few short months ago that I wrote a blog about the magic of the night watch, and don’t get me wrong, there are nights that I love the time at sea. That is when the sea is calm and the wind is good.

In the last month Crossroasds has traveled 730 nm, some of them quite rough. This is quite a haul for a boat that only goes about 5 knots. We did all this traveling in 4 hops: one 24 hour from Culebra to Boqueron, Puerto Rico then a 46 hour hop from Boqueron to Luperon, D.R. going across the “Mona Passage, then 180 nm (40 hours) to Mayaguana, Bahamas then another 40 hour- 180 nm hop to Georgetown, Bahamas.

Looking back, I can see why I was bummed out about leaving the Virgin Islands. After all, for 6 weeks we never had to go more than 20 miles at a time from the British Virgins to the U. S Virgins to the Spanish Virgins.

Glenn and I have never minded doing passages but for some reason these last four have made us extremely tired. Maybe we are out of practice from the 6 weeks of short distance sailing but I know I am happy to be at anchor for 2 weeks and I’m really looking forward to coming home and sleeping through the night without taking 3-hour shifts.

Michele