Day 2 started out with great sailing and speed, but finished with the wind clocking around on to our nose and forcing some more motor sailing, we were not making much progress toward anything. We tried south, we tried west both resulting in about 3-4kt of forward progress under bare polls after dinner.

Compliments to the chef, English Turkey roasted to perfection, stuffing to die for made from stale bread that you had to cut with a chain saw. Gouda smashed potatoes and fresh carrots with brown sugar cause they kinda look like yams. Wind had died enough for the entire crew to sit in peace and have a typical Thanksgiving fest! Wine and Rum and Diets – course it was my time to sleep to what better way to get a good siesta in a bouncy boat than a good drink of grog.

As night fell the sky was cloudy and some big waves had come in, on my watch I was able to roll out a bit of jib and get back on course, and woke up Marvin to finally raise some of the main sail, about 2/3rds of it (second reef point) with 22kn of wind and pinching at about 37 degrees to the wind. Rolling along at 6-7 so we didn’t completely plow through the waves while the crew was sleeping. Christine came up to relieve me at 4am and its still pretty much still set like that now @ 10:40AM Zulu (GMT).

Boat is covered in salt, lots of spray over the bows when going over the short waves and smacking into the next one behind it. Nice sunny day, very lightly scattered clouds.

Crew is still doing well, just chillin out while the water passes under the keel.

Did find out that the Aggies were whipping up on the Longhorns, so that pretty much speaks the longhorn season, no?

Course over ground: 219 Speed over ground: 5.7kn Total miles through water: 334 Miles to destination: 2508kn if we were a bird.