Position: South 05.06.23 West 97.42.08 Heading 244 degrees at 6 nm.
We are doing well – have been sailing without the motor for most of the past 2 days.
Yesterday was gorgeaus – smooth seas and a nice wind has us
racing along between 7 and 8 knots for most of the day. We are not getting
long enough stretches of sleep to feel rested, but are continuing to figure
this out. We are part of two “sailing nets” – which are groups of
sailors who talk on the SSB radio at set times during the day to report their
positions, and current wind and wave conditions where they are. Both
of the nets are for sailors in the Pacific. 99 percent of them are on our
exact course, and we are all within a couple of hundred miles of each other.
It is helpful. We know most of the boats from having seen them,
and meeting many of them, these last few weeks in the Galapagos. We are
just about 20 miles from one of our favorite boats – Intiaq – a catamaran
owned by a French/Swiss couple. We are close enough to them to see their
navigation lights at night which is kind of nice. Not much else out.
here to see except lots and lots and LOTS of water.Saw some dolphins
yesterday, but they didn’t seem interested in us and just swam on by.
More later