Noon to noon run: 91NM (Course Made Good)
Actual Miles Sailed: still too many
Time of position: 3AM
Lat/Lon: 39 21.81'N deg 155 deg 08.12'W
Course: 356 deg Mag
Current Speed: 4.0-4.4
Next Waypoint: 40N 155W
38 NM distance
Synopsis: We headed off the wind this morning to the NW
for about 3 hours until the wind dropped and swell resided. Then resumed
motoring to our new mark set by Rick, the weather guy as noted above. As we
headed back north, we replaced the jib halyard with a wing halyard because of
chafe. Not to worry, the line was over 10 years old, and had started making a
lot of stress noise over the past couple of days. I also ascended the mast with
Scott manning the halyard in order to check the sheave for the jib and lube it.
By the time we were done with those projects it was about noon, and the seas
have been relatively quiet and the wind light but on our nose, slowing our
progress. Nevertheless we are making progress, albeit slowly. Sure would be
nice to get a break with the wind angle.
We are heading north and that is good, but we still have
a long way to get north as we are only nearing the town of Mendecino, south of
the California-Oregon border (42N) and we are spending fuel. Then we still have
to make a very long way east before we arrive off of Cape Flattery.
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