Note : approx 1150 N miles done and 1800 N Miles to go !
We left the Galapagos nearly a week ago, and it seems centuries. We are now one third
into our passage and things are going well. We are exchanging sattelite with two other
yachts we know (one four days ahead of us, one three behind) and they seem to be
suffering from boredom. We don't have that problem: kids sure light up a boat and give
you plenty to do, think, or scream about, no risk of boredom aboard! Their latest
invention is fighting (nothing new in this), using cloth pegs as amunition: social
services might not beliefe us (so it's just as good there are none in the middle of
the Pacific ocean), but we swear we have nothing to do with the red pinches all over
their torsos. Xavier does the longest hours of the night watch, which means he has
to sleep daytime, and I do sunrise and day, reading a lot(one Ken Follet and one John
Le Carre novel within two days, and have greedily attacked an Amy Tan novel). I had
packed Nietzsche and Plato, thinking that, when trapped during a passage, I would have
nothing else to read, but I guess I do have something else...still.
Otherwise, we are now hoocked on Lost and have just finished watching the first
season, which we started in the Galapagos. We do quite a lot of cooking on board: two
mahi-mahi were caught, and cooked in various ways, chocolate cake, french toast, peach
crumble, we will put on weight if the wind continues to be that slow.
The wind has slowed down in the past two days, but apart from motoring on and off for last
2 days we have been able to keep the sails up. We took our mainsail down this
morning and are now using only our Genoa which we put on boom jib stick this morning,
with true wind between 8 and 15 knts from SE, and our speed between 3 and 6 knots.
our position on july 3 at 2300 gmt is 03-41 s and 110-02 W. heading 262degrees.
next news in a few days. Xavier and Isabelle
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