This morning began with the wind becoming more light and soon it was blowing only 8 to 9 knots even though the forecast called for just a little bit more wind. We talked about flying a spinnaker, but decided to be patient and see if the wind would improve, especially […]
Bananas
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It is again another day at sea and it can become a little more difficult for to determine of what to write that may be interesting. For instance, we watched our entire stalk of bananas turn yellow today; this is pretty exciting stuff huh? Well it was a little bit […]
The miles keep decreasing as do the number of bananas, albeit both quite slowly. And speaking of miles, we keep doing what we can to try to arrive in Penrhyn before Sunday. Work of any sort is frowned upon on Sundays, as well as departures, so we are sure Penrhyn […]
Yes, only about 125 more bananas to go (take one down, pass it around, 124 more bananas hanging around). We ate several, froze some, and dehydrated a bunch too. Unfortunately, our solar power was diminishing around 5 pm so we had to unplug the dehydrator and we can finish off […]
Not much new to repost today except that we had a 986 foot long ship (size and name determined from broadcasted AIS information) pass within 2 miles of us. Also a boat called “Kiwi 986” was unsuccessfully trying to reach the US Coast Guard on the VHF radio, so we […]
We are underway now for over a day and it was near as difficult leaving Fanning Island as it was leaving Hawaii. The kind people of Fanning kept wanting to get together one last time to say good bye, but finally we did leave on July 30th with a final […]