Flying Along - Finally

MD is honkin' going over 6 knots most of the time and we have seen 8.5 kts a few times. The wind picked up finally and is from the NNE or NE but is hard to estimate because the seas are so confused and the boat is twisting and turning like we are in the proverbial washing machine. You have to hold hard hard and wedge yourself to stay standing anywhere and if you move you do so slowly and in time with the rocking, and then you don't let go of one hand hold until you have the next one - hard.

It is real easy to get hurt by going flying yourself in these conditions. It also makes it hard to sleep even though our bunks are only about 2.5 ft across, your body rocks back and forth, and if you do wedge in, your guts move back and forth anyway. Very weird. This is the part that most cruisers hate about passages. At least neither one of us is seasick anymore.

We are almost 700 nm away from Zihua now and starting to plan our visit to French Polynesia in between managing the boat, sails and boat projects. We are also doing some reading on the side, and we even talk to each other some of the time. To the amazement of both of us, we are getting along as well or better than we were at anchor.

I am having email software problems and cannot send or receive email from our ke7bqn address, so if you sent something and we haven't replied then send it to the wcz6559 address. I just love software problems, especially when you can't get online to deal with them which is what all the software out there expects now. I have sent email to the support guys but have not heard back. Oh well, life on a boat.