Light winds in the morning, means a slow start. Winds pick up in the afternoon, expecting 15-18 - nice sailing. Worked with the whisker pole yesterday. Currently using it for the genoa, nice to have in light air. Batteries are kept up by the solar panels, the wind generator, and the engine alternator. We've run the engine 13 hours so far in the last 6 days. The refrigerator is keeping cool. We haven't experienced the equatorial heat yet. Plenty of water. But the watermaker 'eats amps for lunch', so we have only run it once so far. The radio nets our always enjoyable, particularly seeing where all the boats are located. We have a position chart that we keep track of relative positions of 11 boats. Three boats are approaching the equator in the next two days! It will still be awhile for us.