Sunday, July 15, 2012

July 15

July 13, 1930 hrs. Position N 45.14 / W 148.17 130 naut. miles in the previous 24 hrs.
Good evening! We are in a new time zone as of last night. There is now only a two hour time difference from home. I'm a little sad about the change, this morning was the first time I got to watch the sunrise on my watch. Now it will be dark when I go down again. The sunrise was beautiful this morning and I got several pictures.
Very little excitement today. Nothing broken, no repairs. Bob fired up the engine at about 0800 and we have been motoring ever since. We are in the high. The wind is gone, the water is glassy, still cool and 100% cloud cover. Spent most of the day in the cockpit, or "on the lanai" as we have been referring to it. We had two whales cross about 50 yards in front of us and pass by us heading south. Looked to be a momma and a calf. Another came along about 10 minutes behind them heading right down their path. We've also had a mysterious visitor following us somewhat covertly for the last several hundred miles. He appears as though he is just going about his business, but he keeps popping up, sometimes ahead of us and watches us go by, sometimes behind us. We're not exactly hard to spot, from a birdseye view we are the only thing above the waterline for miles and miles. I'm going to attempt to figure more out about this guy if he is still around tomorrow.
The big news for today is that in just under an hour we will drop below 1000 nautical miles to home. Yahoo! Looking at the chart today it is hard to believe that right now we are much closer to Kodiak Alaska than we are to home. Kodiak is only about 700 miles away, don't think we'll stop in though.

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