June 4
Overnight winds continued to lighten so we were up several times to shake out the reefs. As the winds die our chance of making landfall tonight become smaller. The worst part is that it will only be by a couple of hours that means either spending the night tacking outside the harbor entrance or hove to. Herb indicated the wind would increase tonight as a cold front passes over the island so neither sound attractive. Soooo, one more time we turn on the engines to add to our speed. As of 1 pm we have 28 miles to reach the southern end of the island before nightfall.
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Made it! King connected with Herb to advise him of our safe arrival just as we reached the channel marker for Bermuda Harbor and was tied up at the Customs Dock by 6:30 pm. We snuggled up in the NW corner of the anchorage in anticipation of tomorrow's winds and had the anchor down just before sunset. The crew celebrated our safe arrival with a champagne toast......what else?!
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