All is good at this time, on the high seas. This is the end of day three, or is it two? No I guess we departed on Saturday so it's three. So far the conditions have been nice. Winds a little aft of the starboard beem, at between 12-18 kts. A little cross chop, but not bad. The first day we did the most miles, around 165nm, then it's been going down, along with the wind strength. Tomorrow I'll probably fly the spinnaker to increase our mileage. So far there have been no squalls, and I don't think we will have any until we reach the ITCZ up north of the equator, another 5-6 days out, I hope! We had one fish on just outside the pass, but it got off. We have the "meat"line out all day, I'm sure we will hook up with something. The temp is going up as we travel north. Fiji was kinda cool & humid this season. Now it's back to HOT & humid. Have you been checking our progress on Yotreps? We have been a bit lazey about posting "Sail blogs", but Morgan will have one out tomorrow.

So far the watch system is as follows. We all eat dinner. I clean up, and Kath turns in around 1930. The boys and I tell stories until 2100, and then they are off to bed. I stay up till 0030-0130, then it's Kathy's watch until 0500. Then I'm up, and the boys get up around 0730. Kath gets up around 0830, and I go back down for another hour, or two. Kinda exhausting, but not too bad.

Morgan has taken over filling in the log book, twice a day. He records, Lat& Long, course, speed, wind & wave, and barometer. In the evening he plots our position on the paper chart, and logs the 24hr run. He also forecasts out our next 24hr fix. Pretty cool.

Today we ran abandon ship drills. We all have tasks and have to meet back in the galley ASAP. The boys run off to the fwd cabin and don their life vests, and bring Kathy's and mine to the galley. Kathy gets the spot light, hand held VHF, Passports, and the EPIRB, and brings them to the meeting spot(the Galley). I get out the abandon ship bags, and bring then to the galley,and then we all collect everything and move to the cockpit where we prepare to launch the life raft. obviously we don't launch, it's only a drill, but we do the rest. God willing we will never need the skills, but it pays to be prepared. Well that's about all for now