Our progress has remained good, with decent speed even in the light winds, and an overall good direction. We had no boat problems today. Cynthia baked bread to accompany dinner, and I worked on various projects and repairs as well as getting in some guitar time. We are now, as of last night, officially out of the doldrums, and are in fairly consistent NE winds and seas. That means we are still going into the wind and swell. We can't wait to go downwind again! We have been going upwind on a starboard tack now for almost three weeks. Right now it looks like that won't change anytime soon.
Our current position (as of 6pm) was 15D 37.5N, 144D 12.4W. Our speed has been averaging about 4.5 kts on a course of about due north. Our next waypoint is named Hawaii, because it is at the same latitude as Hawaii, 20D north, but we are almost 1000 nm east of there. We should reach that waypoint in a couple more days. Then the next one will be up close to Seattle! Right now it looks like about three more weeks or so to go, but nothing is set in stone when the weather is concerned.
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