GALAPAGOS TO THE MARQUESAS-Kathy's Weekly Recap Log (or as Casey calls it: The boring stuff)

DAY 1: Wed, May 7 (Left Isabella at 2:30pm) Seas: 3-5ft, soft roll Wind: SE, 6-10 knots Sails: Single-reefed main, jib Power: Motor-5 hrs Miles traveled at 8am: 2940-2846"mi Water: None made Dinner: Fully-loaded gound beef tacos. Mood of captain and crew: Excellent Other: Saw another Marquesa-bound boat (probably a catamaran); hailed them, but no response. Not tired

enough to sleep much during 2-3 hour sleep cycles. Leaving Galapagos islands, saw the largest dolphins

seen to date. Movie: Tara and Casey: Return of the King

DAY 2: Thurs, May 8 Seas: 3-5ft, high-frequency Wind: SE, 10-15 knots Sails: Single-reefed main, gennaker until midnight, jib Power: No battery recharge Miles traveled at 8am: 2846-2736=110mi Water: None made Dinner: Mac and Cheese Mood of captain and crew: Good/tired School: completed Other: The gennaker halyard snapped and we had to pull the gennaker onto deck from the sea. Following

advice from a captain that's made the Marquesas trip several times, we left our dinghy inflated and

mounted to our foredeck to use in case of an emergency. The dinghy is now quickly loosing air from its

port side and we'll need to repair it under way. The sun arose to reveal 31 dead squid, about 2 to 4

inches long, on our decks. It either rains squid here, or they can jump out of the water at least 5 feet

high. Movie: Tara and Casey: Return of the King/Sean and Kathy: Colombo

DAY 3: Fri, May 9 Seas: 6-8ft, rolly Wind: SE, 10-15 knots Sails: Single-reefed main, jib Power: Motor-7 hrs Water: Made 60 gallons KM traveled at 8am: 2736-2615=121mi Meal: left over tacos Mood of captain and crew: fair/tired. Tara's getting restless. Casey spends all her non-school time with

her nose in a book, completing one every few days. Today, she finished the book: "The Unexpected Mrs.

Pollifax" School: Completed Other: Schools of flying fish by the hundreds. Their silver bodies flash white against the deep ocean

blue as they jump from the water and sail across the waves. Took showers. Movie: Tara and Casey: Gilligan's Island

DAY 4: Sat, May 10 Seas: 8-10ft, rolly Wind: SE, 10-15 knots Sails: Full main, jib Power: Motor-2 hrs./generator-2 hrs Miles traveled at 8am: 2615-2535€mi Water: None made Meal: terriyaki pork with rice Mood of captain and crew: seasick/tired School: Casey iron-stomach completed/Tara seasick Other: The only birds we see now are small, slightly larger than finches, with black bodies and white

rumps. They glide very close to the waves, like flying fish. I haven't seen them resting on the water,

but always flying in the air, close to the waves.

Spent major part of the day waiting for Sean to have the guts to go up on the mast and restring the two

halyards. Spent several hours working our way back to the rhumb line. Movie: Sean and Casey: Magnum PI/Kathy and Tara: Monk

DAY 5: Sun, May 11 Seas: 4-6ft, rolly Wind: SE, 10-15 knots Sails: Full main, jib Power: Motor-2 hrs/generator-1 hr Miles traveled at 8am: 2535-2410=125mi Water: None made Meal: Fried fish and stir-fried rice Mood of captain and crew: Good, Casey finished book: "The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle" School: Completed Other: For Mother's Day, the girls woke me this morning for a scrambled egg, toast, and yes - banana -

breakfast. Luckily our bunch of 102 bananas that hangs off the stern of Adventure is almost gone, either

from being eaten or, more likely, from ripening and then falling into the sea. The girls have been

franticly making charts that show how much of our trip we've completed. Tara made a new pie chart this

morning. It had 20 days drawn in the circle, 4 of which she colored in, showing that we were almost 1/4

of the way there. At this point, anything that helps us to endure is a good thing. Sean has been trolling

a fishing line for the past few days and lost our two best, new $18 lures. But today around 1pm, he

finally caught a fish with our squid lure! It was a 50-inch wahoo. Took showers. Movie: Sean and Casey: Magnum PI/Kathy and Tara: Gilligan's Island

DAY 6: Mon, May 12 Seas: 2-4ft, light roll Wind: SE, 12-16 knots Sails: Full main, gennaker by day, jib by night Power: Generator-3 hrs Miles traveled at 8am: 2410-2275=135mi Water: None made Meal: Fish tacos Mood of captain and crew: Fair/Tara's getting lonely, feels "isolated" (Someone please send Tara a

TEXT-ONLY email on our winlink account. She desparately needs to communicate with someone who's not on

this boat! ANYONE!). Casey, reading her books, seems to be unaware that we're 700 miles from any form of

civilization. School: Completed Other: used two water bottles and a long piece of twine to untangle our hailyard that had been

incorrectly strung between our spreaders. Flew the gennaker and made great speed, 7+ knots. Movie: "The Sting"

DAY 7: Tues, May 13 Seas: 2-5ft, light roll Wind: SE, 12-16 knots Sails: Full main, poled-out jib Power: Generator-8 hrs, Motor-7 hrs. Miles traveled at 8am: 2275-2134=141mi Water: Made 50 gallons Meal: Fried chicken, mashed potatoes, gravy, corn, biscuits Mood of captain and crew: Good/Tara still lonely, but the fried chicken "comfort food" dinner cheered her

up. Casey finished another book: "Lilly's Ghosts" School: Completed Other: Engine temperature alarm signaled. Sean checked impeller and raw water strainer, both looked o.k.

Took 15 minutes to find lost screw to reinstall impeller cover, while a steady stream of sea water poured

into the engine compartment. Kathy struggled to keep from freaking out. Engine worked fine afterwards.

Sean thinks the raw water pump just needed to prime - at least that's what we're hoping. For the past few

days, we've had a foul order coming from under our kitchen table, where there are lots of supplies and

water jugs crammed. Today, I found the cause: several days earlier, a flying fish had flown through a

window and landed on the floor between a 5-gallon water jug, a fender, a ice chest, and a ditch bag. We

encountered our first boat in the past 6 days. At midnight, Sean talked to the crew on the thousand-ton

fishing vessel that passed across our bow about 4 miles out. Movie: Eureka, episode 7:Blink