We are continuing to head almost directly north and today was a great day for it. The night watch was another great one. Never knew how light the horizon would be even before the moon comes up. We have gotten into a routine of 4 hour watches, Bob takes 8-midnight, Janice midnight to 4, Bob takes over at 4am so Janice can get 2 hours of sleep before starting her "communication officer" duties. During the day we both work hard at getting 2 naps - 1 in the AM and another in the afternoon before the cycle continues. I have really enjoyed the midnight to 4AM shift - the moon rose about 2AM this AM shining its light over the surface of the water while having plenty of stars to gaze at as well as watch the shooting star show. Of course there are the "duties" of making entries in our log book, adjust the sails (yes, Janice is doing this on her own), and watch out for other boats. We had one 12 miles ahead of us last night. NPR podcast are fabulous as well as listening to music to sing along with (luckily Bob is deaf enough not to hear!) The daylight today brought us steady winds so we were able to have "Monty", our wind monitor take over the helm and the winds have been holding steady at about 10-13 knots out of the WNW giving us a steady 5-5.5 knot hull speed.
Our position as of 5PM EST on June 15th is 30.24.61N, 52.53.86W. We are now official that as of 6:30AM this AM we have now covered 1078 nautical miles.
Hope you all have a nice weekend coming up - thankfully with doing this blog it helps us realize what day of the week it is as we keep the calendar handy to mark off the days. We have definitely been enjoying the trip (except for squalls of course), but as Bob said he things this has convinced him he wouldn't want to do the Pacific - this will be a long enough trip.
Sailor keeps getting braver & braver. She gets to the point that she climbs the stairs, goes out into the cockpit, looks around at the water, shakes her head and goes back down. We think she is just checking to see when the trip will be over - she has been a real trooper living up to her name!
Best wishes to you all!
Janice & Bob
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At 6/15/2012 9:57 AM (utc) our position was 29°34.00'N 053°05.00'W
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