Day 16

Date: 08/30      
Noon to noon run: 88NM
Time of position: 6PM
Lat/Lon: 46 57.55'N   146 42.43'W
Course: 070 deg Mag
Current Speed: 7.0
Next Waypoint: 47 00.000 N  140 45.000 W
                           Range: 234NM

After being becalmed since sunrise yesterday, a breeze started filling in from the SW about 9PM local time and has been picking up ever since. Now we are scooting along at about 7-8 Kt under full main and genoa, but the time ahs come to reef the main and furl the genoa, especially since there is a very real promise of more wind than we want. A low is forecast to pass over our area in the next 2 days that we have been preparing for. We should be fine with increased reefs in the main and a handkerchief of a genoa. Even so, we need to make all due haste getting east as another low is out there heading our direction, even though it is several days away.