SAILING!

N38 36 W142 47
local 1930 (2 hours behind Cal)

Well, it took a while, but we finally got away from the Pacific High, now a couple hundred miles behind us. We are sailing, and actually even have a reef in. The wind slowly (so slowly...) finally came up throughout the day and we shut down the engine at noon (hopefully for the duration). The wind is straight out of the north 13 to 15-knots and we are moving along at 7.5-knots in soup thick fog and light rain. We saw two huge eastbound container ships today, so we're keeping an extra vigilant look
out.

At longitude 145W we switched time zones to keep our sunrise on the 0600-0800 watch. We had a little adventure yesterday when the starboard flexible water tank emptied unto the bilge just after we had filled it with the watermaker. But it turned out just to be a burst hose, which is now blocked off. Thankfully we were motoring, so the batteries were charged and we just re-filled the tank. We are down to 22-gallons of diesel, and are over 900nm from San Francisco, so please keep your fingers crossed
for good wind for us! Otherwise we'll be having flashbacks of the sail to the Marquesas.

Port tack is where we'll be for the next week, which is taking some getting used to. We've really only sailed on this tack for a few days before, so we have to learn where all the new handholds are, and how to sleep (or try) leaning the other way.

Dan just served us up some baked brie with apple-cranberry chutney, and chicken is roasting in the oven. I can't say we're suffering in the culinary department. Every meal has been better than the next, and so good I don't think our clothes are going to fit when we get home.