We started in on fixing the mainsail after I got up from my morning nap at 1100. First we had to roll in the genoa and start the engine so we would keep moving. We put Zephyr into the wind and slowly dropped the sail letting a few of the sail slides come out of their track in the mast. We didn't want all of the slides to come out as it would have made a bigger mess on the deck. We undid the out haul on the sail as well as the clew(where the sail attaches to the boom)so the foot of the sail could be worked on. We checked out the tear to see how bad it was. The material had come apart where one of the sail slides attaches to the mast. To much pressure from the out haul is all we could guess as a cause. We inspected the problem, grabbed all the sail repair material we had and started in on the repair. We laid the sail flat on deck and put pieces of sail repair material over the tear. It has an adhesive back on it so it stuck to the sail stabilizing the tear. Then we cut pieces of Dacron to be the patch. Two smaller pieces and two to go over the smaller patches. In total, there would be seven layers of material on the patch. The original layer, the two adhesive layers of fabric and the four layers of Dacron that made up the top layer of the patch. The Dacron pieces were held in place with ATG tape(double sided adhesive)so they wouldn't move. Out came Tracy's nemesis. Her Sailrite sewing machine. There isn't a piece of equipment on board that has caused her so much frustration. It rarely works well and requires a multiple adjustments. With the engine still running and our course set to continue west, we ran the inverter so we would have 110 power. I stretched an extension cord from below to the deck. It took a couple of hours before we finally got the sail all stitched and repaired. We turned Zephyr back into the wind and set about getting the sail back into the slot on the mast only to find a second tear farther up the sail. Out came more of the sail off the mast and down to the deck. We brought back out the sewing machine and started back on repairing the second tear. During the first repair, needles were broken, stitches were skipped and the thread broke several times. Tracy spent about an hour adjusting and repairing her nemesis before the first repair was done. This time, the sewing went better a s we had two layers less material. We only used one layer of Dacron on the patch. It's in a place on the sail where there is less demand on the material. Guess we will see how it does over the next weeks.in the end, we started in at 1100 and finished after 1700. A long day of work and we still had to clean up our mess, both above deck and down below. We use the sewing machine rarely so it's stowed in one of the stern cabinets with lots of gear all around it. That has to come out before we can even get at the machine and then it has to go back once we are done with the machine. With all that work, Tracy was exhausted both mentally and physically. She got a short nap, took a shower now that we have plenty of hot water and headed for bed. It was a long day but the sail is back up and the genoa has been rolled back out and we are again a sailboat. The engine is all quiet again for a while. It's now just after 0300 and I just came back on watch. We're still on a course of 305 and now doing about 4.9 on average. Winds are finally over 10 not but not by much but it sure beats the 5-6 knots we had during the day. When I went off watch, I took some time to shave and shower, my first since last Thursday. It's also the first hot water since last Thursday. We don't run our engine out here much though during the evening radio net, we hear people saying they are in 6 knots of wind doing 5 knots of speed. Not possible without the aid of an engine. At this speed, it's estimated by one of our navigation programs that we will be out here an additional 30+ days. We're not doing the 6+ knots we were doing during the earlier parts of the trip. Yesterday, we did 75 miles! No hurry I guess though with this speed, we will surly be eating everything on this boat before we hit shore. Now I'm not asking for big winds but we'd not complain about a nice steady 20 knots for a week or so. Every little bit helps out here.