Finally we are sailing! After a solid 44 hours of motoring it feels good to be sailing. The wind came in at 0200 early this AM. It's blowing at 12 and we are on a tight reach. Freebird is romping along ...her old self. Two ships came close enough that we had to call them on the radio and make sure that they knew we were there. We turned on the mast head strobe light just to make sure. It seemed to work. They were both cooperative and altered course. Yesterday we sailed over a sea mound of 39 feet deep. The water was so clear that I thought we were in much shallower water. The bottom was clearly visible ..probably 200 feet visibility. We stopped and jumped in for a cool swim/snorkel....nice break. We have 1113 nautical miles to go...