Last night was the best so far. Very clear with stars coming out very early and no moon until midnight. We studied our sky map on the ipad for a couple hours figuring out where all our favorite constellations were. Scorpio was out in force to the south and mars, saturn, and spica made a super bright triangle to the west of that. The night watches were pretty uneventful, breeze between 10 and 20 kts, and no squalls. My mom and I took the 4-8 shift and a couple downpours gave me the chance to take a much needed shower, and we surpassed the 500nm mark at 0800! The sea state has smoothed itself out as well and everyone seemed to get a really good nights sleep. We're looking forward to another beautiful day of sailing! I'm missing everyone at home, especially my Katy, I can't wait to spend some more time out here with you, it's too beautiful to miss.
Matt
Morning brings grey skies, squalls, showers and a disruption in the force (the wind is dying, hopefully just because of the squalls) All is well, routines have become routine and we carry on. No contact with Darwind last night even with Valis trying 4A and 6A along with the usual 8A. Don't know if you heard nut Hula Girl lost her mast just outside Kaneohe, ditched it and motored back in. No injuries reported but it has to be costly, turbo carbon rig and all. You probably have more info by now. Cheers, Al
0800HST position 29 34N 157 04W, course 340M speed 6.0kt wind ENE 6 knots, dtf 1872
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