thank you Lulu
24 May 2014 | ChiChi Jima to Honolulu
Rob
Rose and I were becalmed last evening, so Taking Richard on Jazz's advice I furled the sails and went back to lie down in the MBR for the first time since leaving ChiChJima. I tried desperately to get some sleep, but Rose was rocking so violently, it was hopeless. I decided to get up at @0300 HILT to clean out the cloudy fluid from the genset primary and replace the old Racor for the main engine as Lulu had insisted I do . I was shocked to see that just above the clear spin on part where you look for contaminants and water in your filter was this awful nasty brown collection of crap. Funny thing is that now both the genset and the yanmar filters have the exact same cloudy fuel I've been struggling with since the last disastrous attempt to get home. So thanks Lulu - u da bomb! It's 1000 in HI now and I'm still becalmed with 3-4 K wind from the NE and a 1 m swell from the NW. Miraculously, the auto pilot is just able to keep me going at 0.7 K SE so the rocking isn't so bad now. See you guys in a couple weeks if this keeps up. heading 128 T 760 nm to go.