Time has a way of getting away from you when you are busy doing something you love. We are finally sailing the Trade winds the way they have been sailed for hundreds of years. The winds is from the east and sails are rigged out as far as they can go. We are rolling along and I mean rolling. You sort of get used to the rolls and learn not to expect the boat to roll a certain way -- the only thing certain in this case is that the boat will fool you -- and you will crash into something hard.

The cook must master the rolling and not trust it one bit. You can put food in the sink or on non-slip mats and even on the gimbal- mounted stove top if you aren't cooking anything. Eggs or soups are especially fun because they seem to know no bounds. A round bottomed bowl is great for permitting the eggs to accelerate and launch themselves with each roll .

My crew has been working on me since we got underway. They want me to slowdown and enjoy the trip. Especially to stop worrying about every little thing and trying to fix things. For instance, the water pump was running and I thought it was because the water tank was empty. I thought we had drained the all the water out of two of our three water tanks. It turned out that wasn't the problem at all. It was just to suction fitting on the water pump had failed and made the run but stop pumping. I spent days fixing pump pressure switch, suction fitting, cross connecting tanks, filling tanks with special rigs, etc when all I had to do was fix the pump suction. But, all this work managed to fill days of time. Today's fix job was the water generator which didn't work when we deployed it last week. I managed to disassemble it and find that the permanent magnets inside were broken. It could not be fixed. Nothing more to do, I stopped and sat in the cockpit a while and felt the motion of the boat. It was magically relaxing,