Its been 2 weeks and we still have fresh fruit on board. Not much left at the moment, a couple oranges and grapefruit. I’ll be gone tomorrow, if not tonight on watch.
Christine got all excited and made breakfast. Old fashioned Flap-Jacks, not the bisquik you are used to, but Flap Jacks. There is a difference, the marketing materials on the Flap Jack box certainly said so. We did forget syrup at the store so, honey and marmalade worked perfectly to top the top notch flap jacks!
The wind is clocking around behind us this morning, so it was light air, 10kt, and almost holding steady @ 120 degrees behind us. We tried to fly the Asymmetrical spinnaker, the A-Kite. It takes about 15 mins to get all hooked up and ready to hoist. Raised it up, and it filled up just fine behind the full main sail. Couple of tweaks and we were floating along, then as expected the big kite scared the wind away, and it dropped to 5kt. So another 20 mins to pack it all backup and wait for more consistent wind.
Spectacular day, really flat ocean, cool breeze, not too humid. Aired out the boat by opening the almost all the hatches, and motor sailed along to keep the 5kt toward the destination and promise of trade winds.
Since an engine was running, 2 loads of laundry were done, water tanks topped off (this time the washing didn’t use all the water, we used the delicate setting, not the full on presoak, cycle). The place looked like a double wide trailer park on laundry day with all the laundry clipped to anything that would get sun to air dry the threads.
Christine also took inventory of all the gear on board, and where it is. She organized a few things and separated some that needs to be separated from the boat as well.
Somewhere today we crossed the 1/2 way point or are about to, I haven’t measured it. We celebrated a good day with a few rum n diets to get inspiration for dinner. Course a vodka sprite for Mrs. Christine.
Z-Tejas has nothing on our fish tacos. Fresh tempura Dorado, Fresh home made salsa complete with cilantro, tomatoes, peppers, onions, the whole works. Yummy, Yummy!
Drug lines, but we were really moving too slow to attract the big fish – or at least that is today’s excuse.
Wind has come around to the stern, and we are cruising along, with hopes of a spinnaker run in the morning. We have heard that the ARC boats just a bit south of us are pulling in 10kt boat speeds so hopefully we’ll get some of that tomorrow too, sort of heading a little south to try to hurry that up.
We are also going to try an SSB call with Ron’s buddy on the west coast tuesday @ 0200z and test out this SSB for voice calls, as we haven’t had much luck finding the ARC frequency.
We are thinking we’ll be at least a week late back to work, we’ll start to work on rescheduling our airfare tomorrow.
Crew is well rested and looking forward to the 2nd half of the journey, and of course getting there.
Course over ground: 235 Speed over ground: 5.2 kn Total miles through water: 266 (got reset) Miles to destination: 1363 kn (as a crow).