The Adventures of No Strings Attached

This is the Darth Vadar of Pacific Highs. First, the damn thing collapsed and dissipated leaving us in the wholly horrible SE quadrant of the new high...the upwind slog/bash. Now, it seems to have taken a liking to us, tracking our every move towards the CA coast. While this makes for very pleasant motoring, we don't motor that fast, and while I put on fuel to motor approximately 1200 miles, we've already motored for nearly 1350 miles, with no end in sight. So, we keep the jib queued up and at the first sign of a wind line, up it goes, usually for half an hour or so, until the breeze dies off and we're back to motoring. 940nm to go. Approx 45 gallons of fuel left. Tons of food and water, so we're good to go there.

A little more on yesterdays excitement. We clearly stumbled across one of the missing Japanese steel docks. The attachment points where it had once connected to another dock section were completely twisted/mangled. All but two of the floats were missing, but these two were enough to keep 6 feet of steel dock projecting above the surface. Getting close enough to attach the NOAA buoy was kind of scary. When we turned it on, we had the mental image of some NOAA scientist yelling "It's alive!!!" We have pics and video of the deployment that we'll post when we get home.

Cheers,

Nick, Steve, Tim. L.