Fr some strange reason, it appears that the last few posts I did never got onto the sailblogs website. No clue as to why as I was using the same format I've used for quite some time. I've now switched to a different computer that loads it differently that how the IPad does it. let s see how this works. March 2s post was no big deal as it was just another day of cruising with not much happening. March 3rd: We ran the engine for a few hours to get hot water for showers. Once I'd taken my morning nap I even shaved for the first time since last Saturday. Feeling a bit scruffy on the face, let me tell you. I''d cleaned out the shower stall in the stern(a good storage spot on passages) and sent Tracy down for the first shower. She returned a while later looking much happier. With long distance cruising, you learn how to conserve water. Now it's not that big a deal on Zephyr as we store close to 270 gallons of the stuff, but I heard of a boat thats water pump went crazy and pumped all the boats fresh water overboard before it was caught. Not a good thing to have happen since we still have several thousand miles to go. Late in the afternoon, I do deck walks checking all the fittings and fasteners. Screws and bolts come loose and things crack. we heard on the net the other day of a boat that broke their gooseneck. That's the fitting that joins the boom to the mast. Not a good thing to break. When we did our refit back in 2008-2009, we found ours was cracked and replaced it. So far, it's been just fine. There are a lot of stress points on rigging so it's important to check everything regularly--like every day. Today started out a busy morning. We needed to move the spinnaker pole from the port side to the starboard side to do a different tack. When we rolled in the genoa sail, we found a good bit of chafe on the line that pulls out the sail. Not a good thing. We'd replaced the line a while ago and I still had the last one so out it came. Now we needed to figure out how to get the old one off and a new one on. I pulled out the old line and grabbed one of our spinnaker lines. We pulled out the genoa so I could tie the spinnaker line to the eye on the back of the sail. With that line tightened, I ccould take off the line that was chafed and put on the replacement line. It too some doing but it worked out just fine. the hard thing was keeping hold of the back end of the sail as it flapped in the wind repeatedly jumping out of my hand. I ended up cutting the old chafed line off and then prying the line that was still attached to the ring on the sail off. On went the new(actually old) line and the temporary spinnaker line was then untied and we were good to go. To avoid it happening again, I slid on some chafe guard covers on to the replacement lines and stitched the ends so they wouldn't move around on the line. It worked great as when we pulled out the line for the sails, the chafe guard went right through the eye on the spinnaker pole. That should solve that problem but it sure made for a morning full of lots of exxercise pulling all those lines and trying to stay on board as the sail flapped and tried to pull us overboard. we're moving right along and are now at 11 16.984S: 17 08.356W on a course of about 306 heading a bit farther north than we have. Thats' about it for now. Hopefully this post will get to the right place. I sent in a test post a while ago and got an acknowledgement that it posted.