just hanging out in the middle of the Pacific

0430 UTC
1030 local
N15 41
W116 39
600 nm south of Baja
2100 nm to Marquesas
Life on board has fallen into a routine of standing watch, cooking, cleaning, reading, attending to a project or 2, and sleeping (or at least trying). Dave Lee seems to have set a personal record of hours spent sleeping, and Rylin has committed us to a daily game of Scrabble. To our delight, a pod of dolphins stayed with us yesterday for over an hour, leaping and cavorting, and congregating around our bow wake. Mostly it's been cloudy and raining all around us, but not yet on us. The clouds are nice
on the skin, but not so nice for our solar panels. They did part last night in the south, though, for a nice viewing of the southern cross (we are rationing the number of times we can play CSN "Southern Cross" - so far 3). Wind has been ranging WWN - N and seems to be finally clocking to the NE. Tomorrow we are hopeful for some real downwind spinnaker weather, as we have just been broad-reaching with mainsail and jib.