UTC/Local Time: August 19, 2300/August 19, 1300
Latitude: 15 45.976 S
Longitude: 153 42.733 W
Course Over Ground: 266 @5.5 knots
Wind Direction: 15 knots ENE
Sea Swell: 2.5 meters from ENE
Sky: 50%
Barometric Pressure: 1017
Update: Day 2 to Suwarrow
It's about 1:00 p.m. on Thursday, August 19. We are now tacking south back to our course line having had to tack more to the north last night. Our course line is straight downwind, the seas are a little to lumpy and the winds a little to gusty for us to want to run straight wing on wing. We had a nice moonlit sail last night. A few ugly clouds passed over, but with no problems.
We are a little tired today as we have yet to get into our watch, awake, and sleep cycles. Russ is napping and I'm on watch at present. Not much to watch except for seas rolling under the boat, occasional white caps slapping at the hull. In the last 24 hours we have traveled 110 miles, only 574 more to go if we stayed on the course line. Tacking puts a few more miles on the odometer. Since we left San Francisco last Labor Day weekend, Worrall Wind has logged 6,100 miles under her keel. We both finished reading our books that we started in Bora Bora. We plan to start listening to an audio book this afternoon.
We had a nice surprise last night. A Berkeley Yacht Club and Emery Cove neighbor, Bill Wright, said hello to us via the Ham Radio during our check in session with the Pacific Sea Farer's Net. That was way cool. Glad to hear from you Bill. Were you connecting from Oregon or California?
All is well on Worrall Wind.
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