11/13
We haven't had much of a break in the 13 days we've been out here. We did have about 4 days of calm last week, but the past 4 days we've been in a system that seemed as big as this ocean. Clouds of every kind filled the sky, with whipping winds, rain squalls and lightning. We took down all the sails on Saturday and moved 15 miles backward. Twice we had to disconnect our electrical system and ground the boat, so if we were hit by lightning it would jump into the water before cooking our rigging, electronics and us. On Sunday we decided we needed to appease Neptune and threw our last Reese's peanut butter cup into the ocean (I wanted to give him a piece of crummy hard candy, but Bruce thought we should go for the real deal).
The good days are just that ... and today is one of them. We have lots of visitors of the bird variety. Several little feathered friends have hitchhiked with us for a day. The Blue-footed Booby birds are good entertainment, until they try to catch our fishing lure or land on the boat and mess up the place.
We're at 16 degrees north, 105 degrees west with 1500 miles on the log. We're almost due west of Acapulco, 150 miles offshore.
Jan and Bruce
The good days are just that ... and today is one of them. We have lots of visitors of the bird variety. Several little feathered friends have hitchhiked with us for a day. The Blue-footed Booby birds are good entertainment, until they try to catch our fishing lure or land on the boat and mess up the place.
We're at 16 degrees north, 105 degrees west with 1500 miles on the log. We're almost due west of Acapulco, 150 miles offshore.
Jan and Bruce
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