Day 4 Evening

The Al Report:  Frustrating morning and delightful afternoon.  This morning we ran into either a huge rain squall or some weather anomaly.  The tradewinds disappeared and winds went southerly, then westerly, then northerly with lots of showers before settling back into the more usual easterly.  I took a little advantage of the showers for a cleaning but as usual the showers didn't last long enough so it was back to the bucket.  We had a little watermaker incident today as well.  The output was seeming low but I couldn't find a reason why.  I was thinking we had fouled the membranes or something terrible.  Later I noticed some leakage along the flooboard at bottom of the companionway.  Further investigation traced it back and it turned out to be the hose came lose on the valve under the sink.  No big deal except for all the clean dish towels were under the valve and got soaked.
Matt and Judy fixed baked Mahi on a bed of rice, beans, corn and tomatoes topped with queso and tortilla chips (where's Nick?)  Delicious stuff.  Al

1900 HST position 30 41N 157 04W course 000 speed 6.5 kt DTF 1824 wind 12 E

John here:  Hello my landlubber friends...short course first: border of Calif. and Mex. is about N 32 degrees latitude...San Fran is about 38, Seattle about 48 degrees...just an hour or two ago as we sail north from Oahu we passed 30 degrees N latitude...not so far now to being even with the Calif/Mex border...only we're out at 157 degrees W longitude, or about 2000 miles west...we're virtually in the middle of the Pacific ocean, and enjoying this with awe and respect for the ocean.  If you'd like to get a message to us, write to kotukusailing at gmail.com   It won't come directly to us, but is "filtered" by the shore team for bandwidth reasons, so keep it short and sweet.

I'm loving this...oh, played another recital...at about 29 d. this afternoon...Bach at sea, what could be better?  Stunning intense orange sunset tonight...arrrrggghhh...John