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Here, things have picked up a little, as we were posibly nearing the Gulf Stream.
 
 

Square rigger on the horizon, heading west to join the Tall Ships at Norfolk, I thought.
 
 

Dolphins everywhere, also giant Sunfish, Portugese man-o-war jelly fish, and pods of pilot and other larger whales were seen throughout the trip. 
 

Some of the trip was real juicy, with winds between 30 and 35 with wave heights topping fifteen feet or more. 
 
 
 

Land Ho, we approach the reefs at the south west corner of the Bermuda Islands.  A bit overcast but nice to be there afterall.
 
 

One of my fine crew, Frank Flores helps with the main and foredeck chores as we ready our approach to St. George's Town Cut, Frank is a IP-31 owner from Essex, Connecticut.
 

The IPDG List's infamous (or is it famous) Simon Lock, another of my fine crew mans the bow as lookout on our approach to the narrow entrance called 'Town Cut' at St. George's. 
 
 

Here's a slighly better shot of the cut, they actually move those huge cruise ships in and out of this cut.
 

My fine return trip crew, from left, old friend Donald Teagno, a building contractor from Massachussets, John Ferriter, his right hand man (and a very good shipboard cook), and IPDG's own Warren Brownell, my navigator on both legs of the trip, Warren used to own an IP-35 Saffron. 
 

And last but not least, while I was single handing the final leg of the trip between Norfolk and New York.  About 15 or twenty miles out from Ocean City Maryland I caught this nice Bonito Tuna on a handline that was trailing a surgical tube squid.  A really fine eating fish, as sushi or steaks along with some rice and beans I made for myself during those last forty five hours of the trip.