As mentioned previously there was a celebration(?)last night on the occasion of our passing the half way mark on this leg of our adventure. The festivities included launching a letter in a bottle and a movie. First, the letter. It was very tastefully done on special cream colored stationary. Basically it said who we were, where we were, what we were doing, how to reach any one of us, and $20 bucks to cover the cost of said reaching out. It was tied in a neat scroll like roll with black ribbon and inserted in a Cruzan Rum Bottle. The bottle has meaning. Cruzan Rum comes from St. Croix, currently part of the US Virgin Islands. As faithful readers know our shipmate is Danish, some may not know that St Croix was previously a Danish possession. We apparently neither stole or conquered the island so there are no hard feelings, giving rise to the origins of the bottle having meaning and probably some symbolism. I am the only male aboard, I go along. The first part of the festivities were scheduled for sunset, however that is 2000 by my watch and getting precariously close to my bedtime. My watch schedule is 1600-2000 and 0400 to 0800. So a bit earlier we did the photo shoot and since it was cloudy and we could not see the sunset anyway we did the deed and now wait anxiously to see who finds it! Meanwhile, the second phase included watching Titanic. I will admit it was a good movie. I also had never seen it based on the premise that what could be great about a movie where the ending is pretty clear. Two aspects were most interesting, one being the early part of the movie where they are doing underwater salvage work. That was pretty cool. The other was watching the ship plow into the iceberg. Now, before you think I am cold and heartless considering all the human suffering I need to say I am not referring to that aspect. What was interesting is we were on a sailboat pretty much in the middle of the Pacific, it was pitch black outside (the clouds obscured the moon and stars)and we are tearing along at about 8 kts. Though we could be reasonably certain there were no icebergs, what else could be lurking in the dark. We were making such good speed because it was fairly windy, so as we rolled along at an exaggerated speed and the boat made its normal noises and groans and clanks and clunks, the Titanic broke in half and sank. More later.....