Happy New Year! We are still underway and hope to make Martinique by Wednesday. Our arrival can't come soon enough because we are bored and contracted but otherwise all is well and this has been a good passage. Evergreen has its bow pointed to the island and we are merely riding along. It is funny how normally in life, you have lots to do and not enough time to do it but on passage you have all kinds of time and nothing to do! We are seeing a lot of sargasso seaweed and the air is sticky and pretty warm. Feels like the tropics. We only feel clean for about an hour after we shower but at least we aren't sweating bullets and always have a nice breeze coming into the cockpit. You gotta love trade wind sailing. Hour after hour, day after day of relatively smooth sailing really. But I think the wind is forecast to lighten up a little.

We will definitely be staying up to ring in the new year! Might do some pole dancing (because it is almost time to gybe and we therefore have to switch sides with the pole), we'll watch a movie or two, get the tunes going (with headphones on) and participate in the final countdown to 2018! The best park of this NYE though is there is no chance of a hangover! And we'll get to do it again tomorrow night too. Yippee!

We are down to cabbage and carrots for produce so no fancy meals nowadays. We were thinking back to the first time we sailed to the Caribbean and were seeing the sides "ground provisions" on the menu and we thought yuck, who wants ground up food?! But then we came to realize it was root vegetables. Sounds better, slightly. I think I have had a lifetime of cabbage and carrots but then again, beggars can't be choosers.

We want to thank everyone who has taken the time to write us this passage. You have kept our minds busier and given us some good laughs and it means more than you know. And thanks to John & Cindy for being my blog poster-upper and for keeping an eye to the big weather picture so that we can rest easier that we're not missing something brewing other than our coffee!

Looking forward to this coming year and hoping it is a great one for all of us.