UTC/Local: 2324/1624
Latitude: 07 39.076 N
Longitude: 125 49,337 W
Conditions:
11:00 a.m. Garyn just used the sat phone to request some grib files and it sent everything that was in the inbox, including the incomplete draft of Day 17 . What takes us 20 or more minutes to download through sailmail took 2 minutes on the SAT phone. We've been getting warnings from sailmail that we have been using too many of our 90 minute a week allocation. We can send our stuff out fast enough, but it takes forever to receive. I think we will shift to the SAT phone for some of the downloads.
I spent the morning in the galley, taking advantage of a nice following sea to do some cleanup work. My coffee fiasco yesterday morning left wet coffee grounds seeping into the port refrigerator. I cleaned both refrigerators and gave a burial at sea of some of the produce. Then I made a bunch of pasta salad to last for a couple of days. Garyn and Russ are outside right now tweaking the sails and enhancing our speed, direction, and dodging squalls. They are doing a good job. The clouds and rain of yesterday have blown over. Garyn, using the gribs, has plotted us a course due south which we hope will skirt by some of the percipitation and keep us a beam reach.
4:00 p.m. The wind has continued to blow nicely between 15 - 18 knots. No sign of it dying yet. We are 1 mile ahead of ourselves this time yesterday, so we continue to make good progress. We have all had our afternoon naps and it's time at least for me to take a shower. It's amazing how much better we feel after this simple little indulgence. We've been running the Honda since 9:00 a.m. this morning, charging the batteries and making water. The water won't be hot, but it should be refreshing. It is still humid and sticky.
The seas while big are gentle and undulating. The primary swell direction seems to be coming from our port beam and stern quarter. As we are traveling due south, the wind and the swell are from the east, north east. We also seem to be getting swell from the southeast as well. When the waves collide they do so magically by just welling up and lifting the boat, and water rolls out one way and away to our west, and others roll out in front and to the south. I wonder about the little molecules. I can kind of see what is happening, but wonder if I were a molecule traveling in one direction, would I continue in that direction or is there some transfer of energy when the molecules converge bouncing them back in a different direction? So much untapped energy in the sea.
It's been a beautiful day.
All is well on Worrall Wind
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