I mistakenly attributed Maggie's post yesterday, "Morning of Misery", to me. I'll fix that when we get into port.

We spent 27 days in a row close-hauled (sailing as close to the wind as we can) on the port tack (the wind coming over the port side, the boat leaning over to the starboard side). Usually with a little less wind than in the picture, sometimes with more. A few days ago we got a welcome wind shift and went on the starboard tack, which was a really nice change--all the things you get used to leaning one way are now leaning the other--the sink draine quickly instead of needing pumping and we adapted to sleeping against the other side of our beds.

After a day, we were back, close-hauled, on the port tack again, making good progress. And then, late yesterday (to be continued)...