06/29/02
Eric’s cake yesterday did not turn out so well. It stuck to the pan and came out in pieces. He served it with pineapple for dessert. I called it “Pineapple inside-out cake”. It tasted good, and I was happy with it. The wind veered to the SouthEast, and we had to tack at the end of my watch, as we were more than 100 degrees off course at that time.
It is a pain in the ass to tack with the staysail, as somebody (David) has to go forward and disconnect the preventer from the staysail boom, and after the tack go to the other side and reconnect it. It was already dark when we did this, so he did a lot of the work with a flashlight in his mouth.
Now we are holding a course of 085 degrees magnetic, which is still off course, but less so than before, but I’m afraid that’s the best we can do with the wind direction. There appears to still be a bit of a current against us also. The GPS says we are 353 miles from Flores, traveling 3.5 knots. That’s 100 hours at that pace, over four days, and when we get to Flores, it is still another 130 miles to Faial, where Horta is located on the SouthEast corner of the island. We are definitely missing the jib. I am really beginning to feel pangs of homesickness, too. I am having constant dreams of being at home.
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