sea legs

midnight local time
S06 35 W164 51
700nm south of Fanning Island

The wind moderated to 10-knots today and everyone seems to have their sea legs now. A couple of lures trailed behind the boat most of the day and we even got a game of hearts in. Although we are getting very close to the equator the heat is not as oppressive as it was on the way south, since we are going upwind and have more apparent wind.

Lately it's hard not to think we have a gremlin aboard. The fridge isn't working properly, the final original piece of our Raymarine autopilot system is giving out, and the watermaker is barely limping along. But we are enjoying the calmer weather, and the great sailing, even though it's upwind. The trade winds have been pretty steady, except when the squalls come. They have been dumping torrential rain on us, so heavy it hurts your eyes to try to look ahead or aloft. But the decks and anything we
have hanging on the lifelines are very clean.

No planes, boats, land or any other sign of human life for a few days now; just our little floating home moving along at 6.5-knots over the waves and through the phosphorescence.



Liz driving us through a squall.