We're back in shorts finally. At least for the day time. Weather continues with cloudy skies at night and early AM and then back to sun by 1000. Heck, I'm no longer wearing socks! We can tell we are getting away from the cold water of the south Atlantic. We took the spinnaker pole down late yesterday afternoon and just put it back up. For the night, we needed to change course and with the sail posed out would not have worked. We're back on a course of about 290T and closing in. We participate in a morning radio net with other cruisers that are out here. By tonight,we will be the last one. Others are following behind us but not using the net. Two boats got in yesterday and more will be going in today. With luck and some good wind, we may be in sometime late tomorrow. Some thing more than 1250 miles. We've made good time this trip with the poled out genoa. More flying fish commit suicide yesterday but not that many for a change. We haven't seen a freighter since the last one I wrote about several days ago. We must be out of the shipping lanes. Not sure how long we will be on St.Helena but several days. We'll be on a mooring buoy while there as it's too deep for anchoring and since there is no place to dinghy ashore, we will be taking the small shuttle back and forth. Cost of about 1.50 pounds per person each way. Not cheap but a necessity. Better than messing up Puff. The seas are back to a brilliant blue from the green we saw along the coast of Africa. As for the next portion of our voyage, not sure where we will be landing. It requires a pre-approved visa from Brazil and we don't have one so some where farther up the coast of South America or Grenada or the Barbados. It all depends on where we cross the equator and what we run into while doing it. We crossed back into the Western Hemisphere early Saturday morning. The last time we were in it was December 2012 on the way to Tuvalu from American Samoa. Thats been a long time ago with many thousands of miles under our keel since then and we still have thousands more to go. If we plan on Grenada, it's close to 3000 miles from St Helena. Luckily, we have lots of food stowed and we've used the engine so little that our tanks are still full plus we have 20 gallons in extra tanks so we're set. Lunch today is left over Thai chicken curry on rice. YUMM! The picture today is of the poled out genoa on the bow. So far, it's been great. --------------030209060006090701010204--