Trip Log: 3213 Nautical Miles. 428 Nautical Miles to go.

Flying fish count: 12

We decided to roll in the jib, raise the main and fly the spinnaker. When we tried to roll in the jib, we found it quite difficult. An inspection showed that the main roller furler foil had fallen down onto the forestay swage fitting. So... now we have a problem with the jib, which has been our main working sail. We'll need to check that there won't be serious damage if we use it in its current state. Certainly, we'll need a new lower bearing and some way to stop the main foil from moving.

In any event, the spinnaker and main combination is completely separate from the jib, so we set those up by evening, and have been sailing under main and spinnaker ever since. We did this largely because we were becoming frustrated with the increasing time to go with just the poled out jib. It turn out that the ride with the spinnaker is actually considerably more comfortable than with the jib --- somehow the spinnaker seems to quiet the rolling.

Listening to the Pacific Passage net yesterday afternoon, we discovered that our friends on Galivant were within 75 miles of us, and today, they were within 33 miles. They are Bruce and Marianne --- they lost their previous boat, Freya, in a weather bomb off New Zealand a few years ago. They (they had their 11 year old son with them at the time) were rescued by the St John's helicopter and recovered in Whangarei hospital.

The winds have remained in the 12-16 knot range, so we've been able to resume some normal activities.

We saw a frigate bird and a booby this afternoon --- we haven't seen either of these birds since the first few days.

It's just dark again and we're still running under spinnaker and main.