Monday, June 1, 2009
We have been living a charmed life with squalls and winds. Listening to everyone else's complaints on the net makes me wonder whether we're on the same ocean. We are in the NE trades now, and have 974 miles to go to Hilo, Hawaii. We're on a reaching course, making 6-7 knots in 15-20 knots of wind. We've been doing 150-mile+ days, so could be in as early as the 8th. More likely later, though.
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Bronson wrote: We have been making very good progress lately, 135 mile day preceded by a Mintaka record day of 165 miles. We are north of 7 deg north and working through very scattered rain squalls in the doldrums, winds have not died, we are still sailing along nicely. At noon today we had 990 miles to go, we are close to the northern trade winds. Last evening we had a large pod of dolphins (100+) swim along with us for a while. They were on both sides of the boat as they worked their way past us and headed on their way, really cool. We are planning to land at Hilo, on the Big Island, 7 or 8 days is a reasonable estimate right now. All aboard is going well.
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