Dangerously close to breaking the 500 miles left barrier. More importantly the first 24 hours of actual sailing. It’s now a thing, complete these last few hours without burning more dinosaur juice.

Wind has been light and shifty all day. Maximum of 10kt, with 30 degree shifts every 10-15 minutes. I’d say fluky winds. One minute you are going off course left, a few minutes later off on the right. Checking your path, you would definitely be pulled over and given a breath test. “No I have not been drinking, officer. I’m just following the wind, I swear. He has been like this all day, honest. You should really see what he is on“

We are counting our blessings on making it through the SPCZ thunderstorm alley with nearly no chaos, the one squall that we did encounter, was with sails down so no issue other than a fresh water rinse of the boat.

Next up is the ITCZ. Looks like it’ll start rinsing the boat in just a bit more than 24 hours. With those showers also comes a change in wind direction. Yup, right on the nose. We have been heading a bit farther East to be ready for the wind direction change. Well really, I had been really hoping the forecast would change the North East winds to merely East winds, then it would be a non issue. Doesn’t look to be happening, now that we are a few days out, the forecast should be close to reality.

Stopped into Jason’s Deli (are they still even in business?) for dinner and picked up some loaded baked potatoes for dinner. Loaded with bbq pulled pork. Since we couldn’t source the ‘gigantic’ spuds the Texas chain uses we opted for garden fresh Kamara (Kiwi), Yams (proper English?), Sweet Potato (American).. but these were “Kamala” as they came from the gardens of Gaua, Vanuatu. Yummy..

Left to go, 500 miles

Equator, 75 miles

Diesel burned, 0 liters. And for people from Texas, that is 0 gallons.😎