5:15pm, Wed July 9
We’re moving along well, though with light winds so far, often below 5 knots. We started with #3 headsail and a reef in the main, went to #1 and no reef about the timme we hit Point Bonita ouutside the gate, then moved to the jib topper later on. This is a larger headsail than the #1, cut high and sheeted further back.
Right this second we are listening to the “the children’s hour” on the ssb. Its the chance for people in the race to chat about most anything, ask for help, get current position in the race, etc. We’re currently 4th place in our division of 6. We had 9 boats in sight quite a bit of the night and this morning, pretty tightly bunched.
Other notables were 8-10 whales in about 15 minutes, one of which surfaced about 10 yards in front of the boat, rest were quite close, 100 yards or so. Large quantaties of floating jellyfish, portugese man of war looking from above, very pretty. I caught one by its sail, no long tentacles, so not a PMOW.
Its gotten a bit warmer and dryer, had been a bit foggy. All is well, we are getting good rest and food, looking forward to more wind as in the forecsast soon. The light winds were expected, we’ve concentraated on getting west to get to the offshore winds.
It will not be a short race for us, the boats that started first had better conditions than we will get, most likely. No concern, but it won’t be fast it seems, at this point.
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