Yesterday was mostly an uneventful day. We had wind at our back about 10 degrees off dead astern and it allowed us to fly wing on wing with the Genoa on the port and the main on a port tac. Made some good time for 18 kts of wind. We were set basically directly at Hiva Oa and made just short of 156 miles in the previous 24 hours. We are pretty much out of anything fresh. Have large smoked turkey breast and some ham for sandwiches before we have to dig into the tinned stuff. Haven't had much luck catching any fish and what is happening is a big one must be striking and breaking the line because every once in a while we pull in the line and there is no lure left. One of these times we'll get one. I think most of the time we are going a little too fast for the fish. We have an apple and some limes along with a couple of tomatos, onions, potatos, garlic and a large head of cabbage. Even though we have meat for sandwiches we have no bread so it is bread making day. Ah and we did mention the bread maker quit so that means making the bread by hand.

There seems to be a small role reversal. The old saying the male is the hunter, gatherer, fixer and the female's role is cleaning, cooking and sewing. Well Lisa has a gatherer role in she is trying to start some alfalfa sprouts and I am taking the cooking role as I will be making the bread. I guess roles were for the olden days.

So as I say every day is a new and different adventure although confined to those things on the boat. Lisa just finished a load of wash but the washing machine didn't want to stop. It took on a mind of it's own and the dial just kept spinning and spinning and would't unlock the door. I fixed it. Turned off the breaker then back on so she was able get her clothes out and hang them to dry. (Lisa's comment back: "That's not fixing it - it's still possessed!!")

The closer we get to our destination the more predictable the date will be. We have just a little over 1250 miles to go as the crow flies and we are averaging about 7.4 kts per hour (VMG) over ground as the crow would fly. Well that leaves us short of 7 1/2 days to Hiva Oa. Now one can look at the chart plotter one minute and the VMG (Velocity Made Good - to the destination) is 7.9 the next it might be 8.2 and the next it might be 6.5. So 7 1/2 may be 9 or it may be 7. Only time will tell.

Finally, I think in the beginning of this trip leaving the Galapagos, I had mentioned that when you comment on the blog it isn't something we can see until we have an internet connection. We also cannot get to our Orcinius.com account without internet. So when we post the blog it is a blind email being sent to a special email address that then replies back to me saying whether the update was posted. So hopefully when we get the internet connection in 7,8 or 9 days we will have a laugh and be able to respond.

John & Lisa