Today's winds have been more variable, stronger then lighter, more then less favorable direction. But we have been keeping the speed up pretty well, so at least we are moving north. We were treated today to a beautiful sunrise as well as sunset, although we both agreed that last night's sunset was more spectacular. Today was also another landmark: we passed through 17 deg 35N, which is the northern reciprocal of Tahiti's latitude. So we have traveled through 35 degrees of latitude. As of noon today, we have logged 2138 nm from Tahiti. Today was also noticeably cooler for us whimps - we had sweatshirts on all day instead of just at night. And we're not out of the tropics yet!
Our position data as of 6pm was: 17 deg 43.2 N, 144 deg 14.7 W. Our wind was stronger at over 16 kts, but was NNE which is worse for us.
Ok, I'm back now. As I was writing this post the wind went up to over 20 kts and I had to go out and take two reefs in the main and ease both jibs. We seem to be better now. That's just the way today has gone. But I got a couple of chores done today - servicing the fuel filters *before* they stopped the engine, and adding a grab handle in the galley.
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