This passage sure isn't going like we had hoped. Well, that's sailin' for ya. It's never like you think it's going to be. Normally, this passage would a fast sail with reaching winds. Not this time . We are being forced to conserve fuel. We have just enough fuel to make it all but the last 250 miles. This is not the place to be drifting around waiting for wind. Our reacher sail is really paying off. We are able to sail at 5 to 6 knots in the same amount of wind. Normally most boats would be motoring. The problem is now, most of the time we haven't even had that much wind. When the wind is lighter we fly that sail with the motor and gain one to one and a half knots. Not too much to report today. Our only marine life has been the odd flying fish. We had a nice steak dinner in the cockpit. Calm wind allows us to barbeque. We are spending our days catching up on reading. Judy baked some very nice bread this morning. ...yum! Tonight the sky is starry and the moon is out. The same stars are there to great us in the same place every evening. 681 miles to go...... Davey found a bird tonight that flew by to check us out. Then it came by again & he called me out to the cockpit to see it. It was dark so hard to tell but it looked like maybe a tern. I said i think it was thinking about taking a ride with us. At first light we found it huddled down on the foredeck. This is our second "Freeloader" on this trip. We're changing the name on the side of the boat...... "Free Bird Rides". Hehehehehehehehehe