Position Update 9/26

It's all or nothing for us when it comes to wind. Last night we had blasting wind, so much that we couldn't put up much of anything for sails. Tonight it's back to 5 kts of wind and us barely drifting along with our biggest sails up. Neither situation is ideal for making the big speeds that we love so much. This light air is expected to continue through tomorrow before another front bumps up the wind again. Oh well, it was a lovely sunset and now it is a clear night.

We used the quiet time today to get a lot of repairs done. Cynthia re-sewed some sail slides on the mainsail: one was broken and several others were mostly chafed through. All better now. I went up the mast and replaced the halyard for the radar reflector - it had chafed through and the reflector had come crashing to the deck. Cynthia put some sail repair tape on a couple of spots on the mizzen sail. I repaired a nearly chafed-through control line for the windvane, and reorganized and secured half of the engine room storage. We'll have to come up with more to do for tomorrow.

Our current data:
Date/Time: 9/26 6pm PDT
Position: 38D 50.7N, 131D 52.7W
COG/SOG: 045T @ 3.0 kts
Wind: NW 5-8 kts
Seas: NW 2-4 ft
Sky: Clear

Note: Our position, in practical terms, is 70 nm north and 440 nm west of San Francisco. We are 640 nm southwest of the entrance to Juan De Fuca Strait. Following our current route, we are 754 nm from Friday Harbor.