Day 7 Morning HALFWAY from Al (and the whole crew)

Yeah, we are more than halfway to Kaneohe.  After a stressful and somewhat stormy night, with winds over 30 knots, no stars and no moon we finally passed Lightspeed after they took their spinnaker down for awhile.  Thanks to an ironman performance by Alex, who drove for 3 hours straight, we were able to make it to our halfway party.  Matt fashioned up quite a feast of Eggs Kotuku (poached fresh eggs on homemade biscuits with smoked salmon and hollandaise sauce)  Then into the halfway gifts which were accompanied by the sweet sounds of the Esarey girls singing the Kotuku song (to the tune of You are my Sunshine) You are Kotuku, our one Kotuku You make us happy on windy days You'll always know, crew How much we love you 'cause we'll cheer for you everyday The other night, crew, on the computer We were tracking you across We lost connection And your direction And we feared that you were lost. But in the morning, wifi was working And you were sailing very fast From San Francisco To Hawaii closer to first than last (we hope!) [repeat chorus] I need to get this posted so that you all know we are safe and sound.  The rest of the gifts will be explained further in some later postings but to all of you, thanks from the whole crew, Graeme, Eli, Matt, Alex, Emily, Nick and Al