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Today was the hottest day of the trip so far, with the sun turning Confetti into an oven. It still isn't as hot as the trip south though. We passed a ship whose captain informed us of a report of a missing sailboat en route to Australia from Hawaii. We are keeping an extra eye out for them.
Our ETA to Fanning at current speed is the middle of the night, so we have a reef tucked in to slow down and will likely furl our jib in a few hours to slow down further. Everybody aboard is really excited to land on this island in the middle of the ocean, mostly because it sounds cool, but also because 8 days upwind at sea has tuckered us out.
The sun is setting and everyone is emerging from behind their respective shady spots to convene in the cockpit for our last evening out before landfall.
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