N11 36 W157 11
585nm from Honolulu
Tonight we will be half-way to Honolulu from Fanning, putting us on schedule to arrive Saturday.
We've taken in the morning to saying, "What's going to happen today?" Yesterday was our dolphin friends, and today was a beautiful dorado on the hook. MJ reeled her in and Colin carved up some gorgeous fillets, one of which he has marinating for dinner right now.
We are definitely in the northeast trades now, close-hauled in 15 to 18-knots. We decided to put up the storm jib (nicely done by Liz and MJ), which actually has let us point higher and heel less, without losing any speed.
Scrabble and dream analysis were the afternoon activities over a huge bowl of popcorn. We're all getting pretty good at living and crawling about at this angle with the rail buried. Occasionally we launch off a wave and land pretty hard or get completely doused in the cockpit, but generally we are moving over 6-knots in the right direction. And we're half-way!
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