Noon to noon run: 166NM
Time of position: 18:00Lat/Lon: 19 45.38.'N deg 156 deg 40.33'W
Course: 320 deg Mag
Current Speed: slow
Next and final Waypoint: 21 deg 17.98'N; 158 deg 08.70'W
Near barber's Point, Oahu Is.124 NM distance
The island that was not: We arrived at our waypoint off
of the SE tip of the big island of Hawaii at 03:00 seeing only the lights from
one small town through the haze. By 06:00 we were at the southwest corner of
that 20NM coast, and only saw a small part of a slowly sloping shoulder of the
island. That's it. Nothing more. So much for being excited at our first
sighting of land in about 2200NM of open and remote ocean.
We are now slogging our way up the leeward side of the
island chain at 4Kt. We went from 18 knots of wind on the beam to nothing in a
few short miles. And now, believe it or not, the wind is directly on our bow.
It is most likely coming from the channel between the islands of Hawaii and
Maui. Even though progress is slow, we are coming up on the west end of the Big
Island and will soon be approaching the channel between the two. The seas were
relatively flat only a short while ago, but now in addition to the head wind,
we also have big ocean swell running under our keel even though we are 53NM
south of the narrowest part of the channel. Hopefully we will soon be getting a
lift from the wind and be able to start making better time and speed toward our
destination on Oahu.
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