Day 3 4/1/06

Coordinates............ 14 20.197N, 109 16.281W
Heading................ 250
Boat speed..............7 knots
24 hr total nm .........167 nautical miles (NM)
Wind direct. & speed....N 20 knots
Swell direct. & ht .....N 3-6 ft.
Cloud cover.............5%
Barometer...............1000 hPa

Cruising right along. We have been able to sail nearly entirely for the last day, starting up the motor only briefly to have a bit more juice to run the water maker. We have kept basically the same sail configuration with both sails full. The winds did die down enough this afternoon that we brought out the spinnaker and flew our beautiful colors for a few hours. All in all it has been very relaxing and comfortable. We have started to find evidence of poor sea life like flying fish scales stuck to the dodger and such but not seen any actual fish yet.

Everyone is back to full speed and we are eating like kings trying to make sure we use up all our produce before it goes bad on us. The refrigerator is only so big so a lot of produce gets left sitting out. It stays pretty warm here in the cabin which makes it all challenging. It is currently 84 degrees in here at 3am and quite sticky too. You can also judge the sea worthiness of a crew mates tummy when they can handle sitting and staring at a game boy for hours. The true indicator that they have their sea legs and are ready to start back to a full day of school. It is amazing how quickly they can look green though when that "s" word gets mentioned.

Today we played some board games and reading time. We did attempt to take showers off the back of the boat on the swim out step. Quite a feat when you think about the fact that the boat is whipping right along and will wait for no one. One soaping hand holding on at all times was fun. It felt great but that humid hot sticky feeling comes back pretty fast.

We have been able to make regular VHF and SSB radio contact with the other boats out here such as Lawur and Capaz. I believe some of them are within sight of each other. So far water, water everywhere for us. Dinner tonight was pork chops and tomato bisque soup. Movie de jour was Lion King 1 1/2.

until next time,
love lisa and the boys