Author: Pete

Location: 23º 04.648N’ 85º 09.370W’

Date: 17:00 March 14 to 17:00 March 15

Day 6 at sea.

Good wind today. Last night after dinner we made popcorn and watched Finding Nemo, all gathered around a laptop. Occasionally someone would pop up to look for freighters, but we haven’t seen one in days.

We do have a passenger for the night. A booby bird made several passes at the boat before alighting on our port bow. He spent several hours preening while doing an impressive balancing act. I was trying to get another one interested so we could have a pair of them, but didn’t see any others way out here.

The night was easy, besides the shackle on the outhaul car which ripped free ten minutes into my graveyard shift. I had to tie the clue of the sail to the boom and take off the offending piece. Made it work until morning. Pulling the car off the boom track was fun in the dark on the rolling boat trying to catch plastic ball bearings as they rolled out of the car. The booby laughed at me I’m sure.

So today was project day! Not super flat, but still we managed. Put the car back on the boom track, which sounds like it should take 20 minutes. Broke 1 bolt, 1 tap screw, and drilled 6 holes through metal, all on a rolling boat. Took all day! But, what the heck else do we have to do?

Standing on.