Captians blog Sae Date July, 4, 2009

Happy Forth of July
Captains Blog Sea date July 4th
days at sea 5
Current position Lat. 26'09 Long 124'29
Miles Travailed in 24 hours 127!
Apparent wind speed: 2.1k (taken with hand held, no true)
True wind Speed: broken
Wind direction: west
Average speed: 5.5k
water temp: 74.3f

*** Ron from KNX 10.70 see note at bottom**

Hold on to your hats. thank goodness the wind is here, i think. yesterday afternoon we were clipping along with the just the hot pink spinnaker in very fluky, shifty, light wind but we were moving at least. it took everyone's concentration to keep the kite full, if it flogged at all it would take a good 5 minutes to fill again. but we were moving. i have noticed that by 0200 till 1100 in the morning the wind is the lightest, that is not unusual, but seeing as how there is not much wind it is very noticeable. right now we have 2 whole sails up, what a novel idea.
i did our radio check in this morning, it seems that we are all spreading around the course, lots of radios are skipping and there have been lots of relaying. i learned that our friends aboard Silent Running have retired the race due to time constrictions, bummer.
The Addiction blog has been band. i love it. Chases mom sent him an email saying how much her and her fellow nurse colleges enjoy reading the blog. i guess someone at the hospital did not like it so much because our site has been blocked. to funny. mike and i pictured it along the lines of, "can we get a nurse over here we got a flat liner." "wait i think my sons boat has found wind."
Mike worked on the bilge today. i guess at some point it sucked air and so all it needed was to be primed. I tried to hail my dad and Ron on the radio, i was really excited to talk to him, but i guess im still to far away. Did you guys hear me? My mom would like to say that driving this boat is like going to a sub title movie. you spend the hole time reading the gages that you miss the big picture. its true. she would also like to let Bill know that she misses his interesting story's and playing trivial pursuit with Caroline.
As for our forth of July we are presently we are enjoying an all American classic 4th of July meal, beef quesadilla, chili and even cool water. i love it.
well i want to eat, thank everyone for there support!!
LA

Aloha Ron, thanks you for pumping the blog! we would love to do a sat phone interview. you can send the info to the blog, we check our comments at 0600 and 1700, i will respond to the info. we have a few great pictures of us with your mic thing you gave us. look forward to hearing from you.

Becky you are the best for helping out Julie with the party action. Julie thinks you rock.

Dman and Oopu check you email, sail mail is the boat account. olive.

Dad shoot me out an email when you want to set up a radio check in again. hope all is well, have you heard from Phillip? news on him?