We encountered a sea creature this morning that I had hoped never to see, at least from the deck of Mintaka. At nine o'clock, we were startled to see a sperm whale, swimming fast towards our beam as if to ram us. For whatever reason, he veered off at the last moment, then followed closely behind in our wake. This was a dangerous animal, larger than us by far, and with a bad reputation. Fortunately, he lost interest in us after a few minutes and dropped astern.
We've been having good to great sailing conditions since clearing Oahu. The wind was a little light for a while, but the sailing was delightful. We've been moving faster since yesterday. The weather has been beautiful, mostly sunny with only a few small squalls (only one good boatwash so far). We had a pair of Mahi-Mahis following us for a while yesterday. The previous two nights, we had red-footed boobies roosting on the bow pulpit all night, and one on the solar panel.
Our noon position today (June 16th) was 28 degrees 29 minutes North, 159 degrees 52 minutes West, about 415 nm north of Oahu.
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Did you have to clean the solar panel after the bird left?
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