In the middle of the night I woke up to Coyote absolutely charging along, with Rick and Steve (both members of the San Francisco Singlehanded Sailing Society) driving us at a consistent 8 kts upwind through 20 kt rain squalls.

We've been lifted so we are now sailing direct for SF (in fact we are sailing for a point a bit south of SF at the moment). The general plan is still to stay on this tack for a week or so, and then flop over for a final tack into the bay. In a way, this is sort of a modified clipper ship route, staying South and East of the high. The routing software had a strange moment last night when it told us to turn around and sail SW for two days, only to then turn back around. Didn't seem like the best idea, so we held our course and with today's new GRIB (weather file) everything appears to be back to a more sane course.

Sailing with 5 people is great, so much rest, and it's nice to know that everyone on board is a good sailor and more than competent to deal with anything that might come up. John made us peaches, cream, and shortcake for breakfast. Not too shabby.

Lat 24 32.084' N, Long 155 12.353' W
Wind: 13 kts ESE
Seas: 1 meter E
Speed: 6.3kts
Dist to go: 1850 NM

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