After being sold on the idea of a day sail on the sailing yacht Zephyr in Long Beach California, I was held captive and taken out to sea, only to discover that they were headed to Hawaii. With this realization that it was going to be a long journey I settled into the routine of the boat.

As time progressed I was pressed into service to do all kinds of repairs on the boat, fixing the tack point on the pole after a spectacular break shortly after this trip began. Then I was told to fix the spinnaker that we blew up in the night not much longer after that. Mend most of the running gear on the boat. Working on all the watches non stop. Then we were flying a spinnaker well out of its wind range with the standing order from the skipper to go faster but don't blow this thing up or we have nothing left.

Lots of stress including writing this blog. Now to touch on the lack of understanding of the English language, it does create quite a barrier when trying to communicate with the crew. All kidding aside this has been a wonderful trip with great crew that each brings something to the experience. Still miss a lot of the humor but I am catching up.

I hope to have some more adventures with this lot again. Thanks to all who made this happen. Until I am forced to write something nice again.

Aloha and Mahalo, Jeffrey