Last night was a real pounding wet night. Squalls and more squalls, don't they know we are already at 32 degrees?! The squalls now don't have as much rain, but they do have more wind, we are seeing 30 kt apparent pretty frequently.

This morning we dropped the mainsail to the second reef, and Steve and I repaired a mainsail slide that had broken a few days ago. It was a couple slides above the first reef, and it being broken had caused the slide below it to start tearing free of the fabric. Because of this we hadn't been using the first reef, instead driving like we thought we were in the Volvo ocean race with water sweeping the length of the boat all night. Again, fun driving but not so popular with the off watch. Another instance when my time learning from Joe at Leading Edge Sails proved useful!

Expedition says to tack tomorrow, Commanders weather tells us to keep going until we reach at least 38 degrees, which will be another few days.

Cherry pie for breakfast, Julia informs us that she is driving a course of 370 degrees...which could explain a lot.

Lat 32 16.639' N, Long 148 51.133' W
Wind: 15 kts NE
Seas: 2 meter NE
Speed: 6.5 kt N
Dist to go: 1330 NM

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