Landfall in Brazil   We were not planning on coming to Brazil. Our goal was to get south and make landfall in Mar Del Plata, Argentina, but the man upstairs had other plans for us.   We had a problem with data spikes in our wind data, which of...

We first noticed that our autopilot wasn’t up to the challenge of big winds and big waves on our trip from the Bahamas to St. Thomas. We took off to make the non-stop 700+ mile trip on a January nor’easter to make a downwind dash. We...