Noon to noon distance travelled: 105 nm
Total distance travelled: 2128 nm
Distance to Hilo: 771 nm
Now that's more like it! The seas have mellowed, we are sailing along at over 5 kts with our beautiful red and yellow light air sails up, and the sun is shining. If yesterday was a put your head down and hold on day, today is the opposite. Glory in the fact that we are doing this, and cook some food ahead so I can have some hope of keeping up with the appetites of my 3 guys!
We ran out of wind last night, and I ended up motoring for my watch beginning around 2:00 am. By morning the seas started to diminish and we had enough wind to put up the mizzen stays'l and drifter. These are exactly the conditions these light air, downwind sails were built for.
Last night after we turned the lights off for sleep, Lars lost one of his front teeth! His front teeth have been slightly loose for a long time now, but something happened early in this passage at dinner time with his spoon and his tooth, and a major root broke. Can't tell you what happened and neither can he, but it's been hanging on all snaggle tooth like for most of the passage. He finally got it out last night, and we immediately put it under his pillow. Amazingly, the tooth fairy found us out in the middle of the Pacific! She must have been paying attention to which direction we are sailing, because she even made sure her gift was in the appropriate currency.
I'm going to try and attach 3 photos to this post. We will see if it's successful...one picture is of Tor trying to take a nap on deck yesterday. We were getting occasional rolls from rail to rail, so he's holding on. But it's tough to fall asleep when you can't relax your body for fear that you will fall over. The next photo shows what a difference a day makes, our beautiful light air sails. The last one is self explanatory, Lars missing a tooth!
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