I can’t tell you how irritating it is to wake up to 1-2 knots of boat speed.  This is not the first time it has happened and it is more aggravating than you can imagine.  It appears that not all of our crew members are on the same page as to the goal of this trip – deliver the boat as safely and quickly as possible.  Matt has had to have a chat with the crew to ensure that we stay on course hit the best VMG as possible and keep the boat speed up as much as the boat can safely handle without beating up the crew.  It is hard to believe that we have been at sea for 12 days and are ½ way through our fuel and food and are only ½ way across the Atlantic.

We ran the water maker to fill up our water tanks again today (I love the water maker).  However, the water from the water maker is supposed to taste like regular water, but it tastes salty which means the water maker was not de-pickled properly during the first part of the crossing and/or something is wrong with one of the filers – Matt will have to fix it when we get to St Lucia – for now we will have to deal with salty water L.

I was able to convince the boys that we need to run the washer machine as we had worn and re-worn the same clothes for almost 2 weeks.  Of course I did not want to listen to the directions given to me and I ran the machine on “normal” load which sucked all the water out of one of the tanks – lesson learned.  We will re-fill the tanks and try another load tomorrow.  Even though this is a washer/dryer we decided not to use the dryer to preserve the batteries.  So, we decorated the boat with our clean laundry and managed to pull off the ‘white trash” look pretty well.

Ron cooked a wonderful dinner using part of the fish that they caught – I loved it.  Yes, you read that right, little miss non-fish eating girl loved the fresh fish dinner.

We ended up running one engine and averaged 100 miles today (our goal is 150 per day).