offer to help stick a reef in. Our passage to Fanning Island will be a total 1250nm on a course of 030-degrees T. Cooking (actually everything) is a challenge on starboard tack, but we are all healthy and happy.
1300 local
S11 47 W167 55
Monday, July 16, 2007
175nm from Manu'a Islands
We had a great run of 170 miles from our 1230 departure yesterday to noon today. We've been close-reaching and close-hauled mostly in 15 to 20-knots of ENE wind. We're double-reefed with full jib that we occasionally bring in for squalls. It's a rough ride, with the rail mostly dipped and the bow launching off waves. Some of our amazing crew are doing what we call, "boot and rally." It takes a great attitude and good "EB" to come up from puking over the leeward rail with a smile and a joke, and then
offer to help stick a reef in. Our passage to Fanning Island will be a total 1250nm on a course of 030-degrees T. Cooking (actually everything) is a challenge on starboard tack, but we are all healthy and happy.
1300 local
S11 47 W167 55
offer to help stick a reef in. Our passage to Fanning Island will be a total 1250nm on a course of 030-degrees T. Cooking (actually everything) is a challenge on starboard tack, but we are all healthy and happy.
1300 local
S11 47 W167 55
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