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July 16, 2014 Halfway Party
An eventful day today! The wind is up into the high teens low twenties we are flying our asymmetrical spinnakers and the boat is moving along nicely! Around 9:00 we crossed the halfway mark only 1035 miles left to go! Out here we are about as far from anything as we can possibly be although now a bit closer to Hawaii than to California. Not too much later we say our mileage left to go drop into the triple digits, 999 miles to go. Another milestone! Things are starting to get much more exciting as the wind and swells pick up, today we saw the first double digit boat speeds of the trip at 10.56 knots but not the last with 10.21and oh wait wait 10.24!!!! going onto the rocket club board (our little tally strip of who hit the highest speeds) not much later. There is a bag of goodies for a halfway party that we have yet to open as we are pretty focused on sailing the boat and all pretty tired but we will probally get out around dinner time as usually everyone is up then. We have had a few broaches which always reduce sleep time as either we are hanging on to our bunks so as to not roll out (those on the high side), or in my case (on the low side) covering up as bits of loose gear come sailing across the boat to share my bunk with me. My slashes on my right forearm have increased to 15 wait no 16 now. In our most recent broach we managed to permanently open the jaws of one of our spinnaker poles so we are now down to one pole which we better not do any damage to before we get to Hawaii. Until next time
Nico
16 Juillette 2014 Fete de mi chemain!
Un Journais pleins d’evenment. Le vent est monter dans les 17- 25 knoeuds, on a mis un spi asymyetric et le bateaux avance bien. A 9:00 on a passer mi chemain donc plus que 1917 miles a Hawaii. La ou on est on est un peut pres aussi loins de tout que on pourrais etre, saufe maintenent un puet plus pret de Hawaii que de la Californi. Tout commence a etre un peut plus amuseant avec le vent et les vagues qui commence a monter, aujourduhi on a veut les premier, mais certainment pas les dernier vitesse a plus de 10 knoeuds a 10.56 et pas longetemps apr 10.21 et attends 10.24 juste la temps qu je ecris ca. on ecris les vittesse et qui conduit sur un petit bout du bateaux que on appell le club de fussile. On a un sac de chose pour fair une fete de mis chemain que on n’as pas encore ouvert comme on et un peut occuper a naviguer le bateaux et tous un peut fatigue, mais on sortiras ca vers le dinner comme normalment tout le monde est debout a ce moment. On a reuccii a coucher le bateaux quelque fois deja qui n’aide pas avec le fatigue comme ceux qui dors soit s’accroche pour ne pas se fair ejecter du lit (ceux qui dors du coter haut) soit, dans mon cas (sur le coter bas), se couvre pour se proteger des bout d’equipment qui viens partager mon lit. Mes marques de feutres qui represent les changement de voile on monter a 15 non maintenent 16. La dernier fois que on a coucher le bateaux on a reussi a casser le bout du tongon de spi qui ne ferme plus pppour tennir une ligne on a un tongon de rechange mais il faut que il nous dure jusque a Hawaii. A la prochaine
Nico