Waves, waves, waves everywhere, short, tall, steep chopy with lots of wind equals slow going.

Making 2kn is not ticking off the miles very fast. We have huge gulf steep waves and both engines running 1/2 throttle to make 2kt toward the destination into 27kt of wind.

Breakfast quesidillas, and slowly rolling toward St Lucia, the broken lazy jack has wrapped its self around the good port lazy jack so when the time comes it could be a challenge to raise the main.

Pretty much an uneventful day motoring into the wind @ 2kt, just trying to make head way. We could sail either straight south or straight north today, neither of which would put us closer to our destination, so we just motor on. We have one tank with 1/4 fuel, and the other with 3/4 fuel so we have burnned about 1/2 our supply to go 1/3 of the way. I know fractions are hard, but that means we have to do some sailing to at some point to make it the rest of the way. Not to worry, in 3-4 days time the forecasts (that haven’t been right yet) have the winds coming from a direction that is good for us.

Pizza and beer for dinner. Ron had brought some prepackaged “just add water” pizza dough mixes that came out perfect.

Lots of humidity in the air, so still wearing a jacket, but more to keep you dry than warm.

I may have become used to the rocking and rolling, the fact that its blowing 20kn and 10foot seas out there seems calm to me – wondering why we aren’t running under full sails, then just then a big wave smacks the boat sideways, and I am put back in to my place.

Tonight is super clear, lots and lots of stars out, lots of shooting stars, its very cool.

Crew is doing well, thinking of trade winds. Except for me, I’m dreading the next trip up the mast to untangle the lazy jack, thats not entangled with the Texas flag as well. We can raise the sail to 3rd reef position as is, but any more canvas is going to require some more acrobatics. And just as my bruises are healing from the last trip up there, and in these seas, I’m staying on deck till it flattens out some or we get a good breeze to hold un on a tack.

AIS spotted a couple of ships crossing our path earlier today, one of which was bound for Beaumont, he is going to be there on the 11th, we tried to call him on the radio and see if he could just lift us aboard for the ride, but he was long gone. AIS for those that don’t know is a technology where commercial ships and some recreational boats can transmit their data over radio frequencies along with their coordinates and speed. They can be plotted on screen that looks similar to radar, except that you know the blips are ships.

Course over ground: 252 Speed over ground: 3.0kn Total miles through water: 691 Miles to destination: 1699 kn if we were a bird.