Day 21 = 61 nautical miles. HEY - WE MADE IT TO THE EQUATOR! Yesterday we figured that we would make it to the equator in the evening sometime. On the way it was beautiful sailing weather (in between squalls that is). The sun went down and the wind died and we were 15 miles away. We had dinner and then kicked back in the cockpit and fell asleep. I woke up at 1:45am and we were within 20 seconds of crossing the equator. Our chartplotter gps said: 00.00.19N, 00.00.18N, 00.00,17N, and so on down to 00.00.00N, then 00.00.01S, 00.00.02S, 00.00.03S, and so on. We had a cocktail and gave Neptune his taste, watched the full moon and the stars and enjoyed the moment. Here's a bit of the ceremony for 'pollywogs' like we were yesterday...becoming 'shellbacks', conducted by the Royal Order of Neptune: "Should she fall overboard, We do command that Sharks, Dolphins, Whales, Mermaids and other dwellers in the Deep are to abstain from maltreating this person. And we further direct all Sailors, Soldiers, Airmen and others who have not crossed Our Royal Domain, to treat her with the respect due to One of Us. Given under Our Hand at Our Court on board the sailing vessel Buena Vista on the Equator in Longitude 131.44W on this 10th day of April 2012. Signed, King Neptune. We thought we'd like to go swimming at the equator in the morning so we dropped the little sail that was up and went to bed. When we awoke in the morning we were 6 miles away. We had drifted that far during the night, with the help of the hydrovane who continued steering Buena Vista even though he could have taken the night off also. Our impression of the equator - it's cooler and less humid than I was expected. This morning was 83 in the cabin and 79 in the water. Hurrah! We made it. Regarding the comments below by Jeff who sees himself going a bit insane doing what we're doing and Mike, the one who would love to be here and talks about Jeff...these two happen to be my brothers. We love you guys.