Spinnaker. Thats all I can say, up at first light, was still light winds, 12-14 kts, exchanged all the normal canvas for one spinnaker. So we put away the main sail, rolled up the jib, and deployed an asymetrical spinnaker. It is huge.

We have a 70 foot mast, and the A-kite goes all the way to the top and can touch the water if it wasn’t full of air. The length of the bottom of the triangle is longer than the length of the boat. With the almost following seas we are rocking and rolling right along, we have covered 174 miles since yesterdays update. With wind gusts into the low 20s we have seen boat speed of up to 14kts and pretty much on course.

Cereal for breakfast while the spinnaker was getting used to its new spot pulling the boat forward.

We tried to use the SSB to call one of Captain Ron’s buddies but were not successful. Could hear some auto part dealers from Oklahoma swapping car parts tho. I’m going to have to get a HAM license to understand all the features of the SSB.

Sandwich for lunch snack on a nice sunny after noon. Shorts were attire all day, little sun burn.

I took my day watch on the lido deck, took one of the remote auto pilots to the foredeck and chilled in the shadow of the spinnaker on the nets while on watch. The kaos of the stern of the boat sounds rushing through the water are missing when on the front of the boat on a run. At 9 kts of boat speed, I think we could surf the double up wake that the hulls make behind the boat, just like on Lake Austin, except turning around to get a fallen surfer would take quite some time.

Pork chops, garlic gouda mashed potatoes and a salad Missy would be almost proud of for dinner. Would have made the required 7 elements to the salad, but the cilantro had seen better days.

Christine mentioned that it would be nice to see land again, but then laughed as she said I guess that is still several days away.

The following seas and wind from behind are giving us a quick run, and the motion is like the Ab Chair on TV. A little swing to the left, swing to the right as the quartering waves catch and pass us and the wind pulls us back on course.

I slept all the way till my 1am shift as I guess I was tired, getting up early to set the spinnaker, and Christine woke me to jibe the sails during her shift last night. So she was tired today as well. The crew is still in good spirits especially since we have found some favorable winds.

Course over ground: 276 Speed over ground: 8.7kn Total miles through water: 478 Miles to destination: 1189 kn (as a crow).