During last night's roll call it sounded as if the bigger boats (generally in a position N and E of us) were all in the solid coastal breeze and making great time. You can probably actually see the split in the fleet via the satellite tracker.

Even with the fluky winds we are making decent progress, and Wednesday still seems like a likely arrival date.

Shipping traffic is increasing, and already today we've passed freighters bound to Manzanillo, LA, and Panama. We have AIS onboard which picks up signals broadcast from freighters, this allows us to see all sorts of handy information such as the name of the ship, it's heading, speed, destination, size, and more.

Really not all that much to report, every time the wind comes up we are hopeful that we have finally broken completely free of the high and we can start knocking down the big miles towards home. We're still chipping away.

News report, Steve just called for the spinnaker to go up, should be exciting not to be close-hauled for a bit!

Lat 37 19.779' N, Long 135 48.090' W
Wind: 9kts N
Seas: 1-2 m N
Speed: 6.5kts
Dist to go: 635 NM

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