Barbados to New York By Laura Lennox Kufner
In 2016 my husband and I sailed from Kingston, NY around Cape Horn, and back to Kingston. It took 365 days to sail some 24,000 miles. This blog post excerpt chronicles our final passage from Barbados to New York.
The sky has a color for recovery. When the weather has worn it thin, the morning breaks in pale yellow- the ethereal light I imagine on the inside of a Fabergé egg. It was this way when we woke on our last morning in Barbados. The clouds were in two layers and the whole of it looked like stacks of brushed grey felt. On the horizon cumulus clouds piled up like blue smoke rising out of a valley.
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We left Barbados with three reefs in the main, staysail up, and a sliver of genoa out. For two days we sailed like the devil without raising more canvas. We were on a beam reach and the self-steering system held a course next to our plotted line like train tracks to Bermuda. We were sailing up the windward side of the Lesser Antilles with 1200 nm to St. Georges, Bermuda. Three hundred miles melted away in our first two days, allowing us the tolerance for the short steep waves, the treacherous
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