Wednesday, July 10
James’ 1200-1230 half watch
Yay! I’m now farther south than I’ve ever sailed!
I achieved my previous record when rounding the Big Island of Hawaii from Hilo to Kailua-Kona. A different segment of the World Ocean, and no lava-seeping volcanoes on this trip.
The person I was would be thrilled to hear about this, if confused about what took so long.
The other little bit of math I did while logging the last (record-fast 117M) 24 hours tells me that we’re 56M from hitting 10,000 nautical miles aboard Cetacea. Sometime overnight, then. I’m hoping for enough calm to make a celebration breakfast.
James’ 1500-1600 watch
We took water over the starboard side when a cross swell slapped us hard. Since that’s upwind, it got blown even higher and slapped its way into the cockpit. The cushions I was leaning on took the brunt of it and I was pretty smug.
Just now, James went to the head in preparation for his watch and found that the wave had also come in through the porthole there. Nothing really damaged, but filling the boat with salt water isn’t optimal.
Since we don’t shower in there, we haven’t bothered to fix a clog in the floor drain. It’ll slowly empty into the bilge and seep down to the bilge pump but, again, not optimal.
Thursday, July 11
At 1236, we passed 10,000 nautical miles traveled aboard Cetacea since September, 2018. I woke James for kisses and congratulations.
We don’t have strict accounting for the distances we sailed on Sovereign Nation, Sapien, and Nomad, but it’s something around and probably over 20,000M. Even though we did offshore passages on both Sovereign Nation and Sapien, we sailed Nomad a lot more, and over more years. Sapien took us transPacific and Sovereign Nation down the US West Coast. We’ve taken each sailboat farther than the last!
Noon position: N 17° 17.985’ W 022° 11.284’
Distance noon to noon: 100.9 NM
Average speed: 4.2 kn
Trip distance covered: 837.9 NM
Distance to destination: 169.7 NM
