We had a good day of sailing yesterday, but by late evening the wind had dropped and we had to start motorsailing. Really it is more like sailing interspersed with motoring...sail, trim, furl jib, motor,unfurl jib, sail, and repeat indefinitely. It's hard sailing as you have to constantly work to keep the boat moving and moving in the right direction. Unfortunately the GRIBS show the high continuing to move East along with us for at least a few more days. So, we are trying hard to break free. When we do find wind we expect we will have some fast sailing.

In some ways this is the hardest part of the trip yet. We are all over-rested, it feels like we are entering the home stretch, but we are moving so slow...Julia and Steve are convinced that they saw a submarine last night, based upon it showing Amber lights and appearing and disappearing from the AIS (which shows surrounding vessels). In fact, they tried hailing 'submarine near the position of...' on VHF, which probably was hilarious to any other ships in hailing distance. Let's see, Rick dropped a pudding behind the stove, and while trying to reach behind the stove went sliding across the boat during a gust. It's the little things that makes the day go by.

Yesterday we saw a sailboat on the horizon, but no luck getting a VHF response. We thought they might be part of the returning Pacific Cup fleet, but at evening roll call there were no boats that close to us.

We continue to eat well thanks to Julia's heroic efforts in the galley. Pulled pork for dinner and Egg McMuffins this morning for breakfast. Today Steve and I are playing around trying to get the weatherfax working so that we can receive weather forecast charts over the SSB radio. So far so good.

Lat 36 45.353' N, Long 141 17.229' W
Wind: 6 kts NE
Seas: 1 m NE
Speed: 4.5kt (motorsailing)
Dist to Go: 897 NM

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