Not much happened yesterday so I didn't post. Each day blends into the next with beautiful blue skies and water. The occasional dark cloud come by and just keeps on going. We gybed early this morning for two reasons. First, to take us more on a westerly course and second to repair the chafe guard we'd installed on the starboard genoa sheet. I'd stitched it to the rope but the stitching had come undone due to the constant rubbing on it. We had to take down rhe spinnaker pole and gybe the genoa so I could get at it. We let out a bunch of the sail and tied it down hard. I put another line through the eye of the sail and pulled it in toward the deck to stop as much of the flapping as I could. I stretched out the chafe guard and put more thread through it and the line again taking more lines of stitching around the leading edge and pulled it in tight so it would flow better through the eye at the end of the pole. I did the same on the opposite chafe guard figuring if it happened to one, it would happen to the other. With that taken care of, we gybed both the main and polled out the genoa again and got back on a new course of between 280 and 290T. We're moving along at about 5.5 knots so all is well. The radio net we participate in changed its time schedule again. Now it's at 2100UTC which made it at 2000 where we are. That doesn't work with our new watch schedule so we move our clocks another hour backward so we are now at -2UTC. By the time we get to South America , we will have to go back another hour to -3. Tracy is below getting a short nap before lunch. We changed our watch schedule last night so she has the watch from 1900 to 0100 and I take over from 0100 to 0700. Both on for six ehours each night. Tracys best sleeping time is after midnight so we swapped schedules. I used to have an 1900 to 2300 hours watch but we were just not getting enough quality time sleeping. Now we will have six hours of sleep a night uninterrupted. We'll see how this goes. Last night was just fine. Of course if the weather was rotten we'd change the schedule again. Right now the weather is just great and we just keep on moving. I was declared "too human" today by Tracy. I'd crossed over the smell line from human to nasty. It was time for another shower. We're getting them about every five days or when we just get so bad we can't be near each other. At least it's now hot enough that hot water is no longer wanted or needed. Cool water feels great. After getting Zephyr's sail arrangement changer this morning(we gybed again)and putting in an eye splice on one of our new docklines it was almost time. I waited till after a lovely lunch of chicken pad Thai and took off for the showers. Tracy flooded shortly thereafter and washed some clothes while she was showering. Double duty. Those all got hung on the lifeline to dry. Its now just after watch change at 0300. We are now much more in the shipping lanes so we watch out for ships as they show up on the AIS and visually. I'm now keeping a VHF radio in the cockpit should I need to call one. So far, they're giving us about a five mile clearance. It's another star filled night though to poluton from Brazil is getting much more evident. More haze in the blue sky. That's about it for now. I've added a picture of our sail repair. Not the fanciest but it's doing it's job. You can see the white spinnaker pole for the genoa sail going off to the left. --------------070901070506000905000302--