phosphorescence

George getting ready to put a reef in.

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It's just after midnight here in the middle of the ocean. Confetti is slicing through the phosphorescence, and the stars are poking out between big dark clouds looming overhead. Everyone is sleeping, and reports so far are that sleep hasn't been too hard to come by, at least in several-hour chunks. Our wind has been pretty steady out of the NE 10 to 15-kts today, and we have moved along at over 7-kts since a few lulls last night. Yesterday's 24-hour was 140-nm at 002-degreesT.

Today there was an "incident" in the head (the bathroom on a boat, or, more specifically, the toilet). Imagine all the things you don't want happening to your toilet, and what keeps the plunger section of hardware stores in business, and then try to imagine that situation on a moving, heeling, broncing boat, and, well... not pretty. But we are all alive and well and sanitized, and thinking of that which does not kill us.

We are about even with San Diego right now, except 2000nm west across the ocean. We've had to pull blankets out for sleeping for the first time in 6 months and I am wearing a fleece top right now. These are new sensations on our sun-soaked skin and it is fantastic!