Flat seas and a lovely beam reach


19º 08.189n 110º 35.350w

Thu Apr 18 2019

Isla San Benedicto is off to starboard, Isla Socorro is ahead and to port, and we’re just gliding along with a full main sail and screecher. Eight knots true wind yields about 6 knots SOG thanks to the lovely 0.9 knot stern current Jamie Gifford pointed us towards. The sun is out, the solar is pumping mad amounts of electricity into the batteries, and (fingers crossed) everything is working well. It’s a great day to be alive - even better to be sailing across the Pacific! With luck we’ll stay ahead of and above that big blue hole that Mr. Weatherman has warned us about.
For the last 56 hours we’ve averaged 5.7 knots SOG, only about 10 hours of that with the motors on. What the heck are we going to do with all that extra diesel? I bet I’ll be sorry I said that!
About the most stressful event right now is trying to finish the last episodes of Breaking Bad we downloaded from Netflix before they expire! It’s definitely a high class problem.

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