This is Lindy writing. Last night at 10:00 we passed the 1/4 mark. Only 1,100 miles to the Equator! Yahoo!
Eric brought a spinnaker with us and yesterday the men tried flying it. Tried, because no matter how they rigged it, it refused to stay filled. Still, Bear claimed that we got an extra knot of speed out of it and indeed who wants to argue with that? They'll try again when the wind picks up a little more from it's current 5 - 10 knots.
The swells have decreased too so we are having as smooth as ride as you could expect at 750 miles at sea. The water has hit 81 degrees so it will be very warm swimming when we take our dunk at the Equator.
We have about 4 or 5 booby birds accompanying us, but luckily they are roosting on the roof of "Mystery Ship", our companion boat.
Wish us luck as Karl is going to fish today. A fish supper would be great, not that we have anything to complain about so far - BBQ'd pork tenderloin last night.
Best to all, Lindy
