 ALICE MARTIN
Today we hit the high we were trying to get south of. At 11am we were at:
N31 58' 19" W 130 07' 51" - so we crossed the 130 line at 32 degrees (about where we thought we would when we talked about it last Saturday. The weather currently is a beautiful sunny day - no clouds - and a very light breeze. We are moving at about 5 knots. Over the last 24 hour period we did 150 miles with 1606 to go. The 0.75oz spinnaker is up (still) as we hunt down Green Buffallo.
On the boat we are all in great spirits. Last night we had Green Pea Soup with Spinach salad and bread rolls followed by Cream Dream desserts. Everyopne on board says "Thank You Rene'" for the great dinner.
Stan has been checking the weather diligently - we would have liked to have gone further south - we just couldn't make it fast enough - so now we drive through this bottom edge of the High and then hopefully the wiund will pick up within the next 12 hours and we'll be off to Oahu.
Messages seem to be coming through OK - if you want to post a reply toi the blog - feel free - we can read them from the boat.
So far we haven't seen much in the way of aquatic life. The sea is nice and blue but empty. But as we go further south and west we'll see something.
That's all for the moment - till tomorrow
Ian
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Thursday July 06, 2006 @ 11:29 AM GMT-08:00
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Aloha!
Posted by Lee on July 06, 2006 at 12:38 PM GMT-08:00 #
Well, I just got 120 feet of wire strung up as a dipole antenna for my vintage 1941 Zenith (tubes!) radio.
I can now bring in a couple of religious talkshows near your primary frequency 4146 KC. Since my tuner is not digital (1941 remember!) I might be off a little one way or the other.
I'll try to pull in the informal chat hour.
Aloha!
Posted by Lee on July 06, 2006 at 04:13 PM GMT-08:00 #
Posted by dawnmlehman on July 07, 2006 at 11:13 AM GMT-08:00 #
Nothing informative to tell you about weather or anything like that, but I'm LOVING reading the blog, and I'll be checking it up until I go into labor. Who knows, at the rate we're both going, you'll get to Hawaii before I get to MGH! (due 7/15, but not counting on it...)
Glad to hear that the seasickness is waning, that's lousy, and it's hard to concentrate on anything when you're running on empty.
Aloha!
Elise
Posted by Elise on July 07, 2006 at 02:02 PM GMT-08:00 #