today was another great sailing day with 15 to 20kts of wind on the beam and not too bad seas. not only that but we actually spent the whole day in sight of each other with no major issues trying to get back together. in fact eagle 9 spent most of the day in the lead doing 8 kts at times. i dont know how this is possible in a 36 ft boat with a hull speed of 6.5 or perhaps 7 kts. eagle 7 and ourselves managed to keep up with only minor reefs.

a few of the high points included breakfast on eagle 2 of bacon and egg scramble with onion, tomato and garlic. we also had crackers with vegimite and toast and finally spaghetti bolgonaise with freshly grated romano cheese. mmmm mmmm.

by far the biggest highlight of the day (other than staying in formation all day) was the happy hour song prepared by elise on eagle 9. it included some of karli's "radar radar " lyrics and a what seemed to be a few jabs at me! this was all broadcast over vhf chan 10 (sorry bill) along with the guitar, very fun!!! stand by for the complete lyrics in a later blog.

the photo is of karli's pirate "ditty bag" with her essentials to take along to somolia if we get hijacked. contrary to cnn we have heard from reliable sources that quest is now in somolia. we have also heard from the same reliable sources that "there is nothing near or in front of us" for whatever thats worth. we where a bit disappointed there where no flyovers today but washington has probably managed to engineer the next pr event to take the news off pirates so they can go back to in action here.

i did listen to a bbc broadcast on the ssb about the state of CA, did not sound good so i am looking into FL for my official non resident residence. apparently jerry brown is running the state agin, i think he was in chage back in the 70s.

they are predicting less wind and seas tomorrow, who knows perhaps we will be able to go for a swim!

cheers, roger