Wind Again! (a little, for now...)

Motor stopped this morning at 0800 when the A3 went up.  Hopeful it will last.  Burned about 10 gallons of diesel, so a little less than 1/2 gallon an hour, but hard to get an exact estimate of tank reading.  Winds have clocked around to almost due south magnetic.  Skies are clear but cloudy out on the NW horizon.   Matt did chili last night, excellent as always with some macadamia nut shortbread cookies for dessert (thanks Lori).  Changes are afoot in the weather dept. with a vigorous (for summer)low pressure system heading our way.  We are treading a fine line to try to stay far enough north of the high to have wind and far enough east of the low not to get too much wind to be comfortable.  We also must think about keeping to try and get north so that after the low passes we don't get swallowed up by the high again.  Lots of weather faxes from last night to digest along with today's grib files.  Situation should become clearer in 48 hours I hope.  Al

0800 position 33 42N 155 39W speed 4.5 knots course 033M DTF 1640 wind 6 kt SE (but variable)

Sorry but really poor propagation this morning made this hard to send.  (Editor:  That means we will need to reduce email traffic.  Sorry fans, but we have been bombing them with mail.  Short and sweet will likely get through, but more than that plugs up the airwaves when the propagation is poor.)