Captian's Blog sea date June, 1, 2009

Captain's Blog
Sea date June, 1, 2009
Day 2 at sea
0600 position Lat. 30'07N Long. 121'32W
True wind west
true wind speed 6k
Bar 1001 up 1 from yesterday
cloud cover 45%
Sea state about 8 foot rolling swell.
184 miles traveled in 24 hours.

so the past 24 hours have been pretty good. the winds and seas are calm, we just cant wait for the wind to start clocking around. the winds have been steady but seem to be drooping off as of late. today it is actually vary pretty out, right now in mid day there is not a cloud in the sky, we have all peeled off about 2 layers of clothing, and we have a few sails drying on deck. As well as Mikes sleeping bag, it is totally wet, i guess he has been sleeping in about 3 inches of standing water.
Chase spent most of yesterday trying to get the weather program up and running, he was on the sat phone, and sail mail, but with no luck. It is just not going to work. oh well, it is what it is.
Chase and i were on watch and he read an interesting fact out of a book he is reading, i guess the term "posh" is derived from the days when people travailed by ship. If you were headed down to the South Pacific the cooler side of the boat was the port side and on the way home it was on the starboard side, it cost more for this luxury, and the people that payed for it were called posh, Port Out Starboard Home. You learned it from the Addiction crew.
My mom would like to say how much she misses her 5 star bedroom at Shateoux Relaxo. Mike would like to thank Patty for the real New York bagel.
We saw one ship last night, i talked to him on the radio, he asked how many other "little sail boats are out here?" i told him 17 and counting.
I guess that will do it for now. Thank you to everyone for your comments. LA

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