09/04/02
I seem to have contained the leaks with my t-shirts (so far!), and we have been continuing to sail on a close reach with 15-20 knot winds, which is wonderful. Yesterday we made 150 miles. We measure the mileage officially at 1400 each day. It is the responsibility of the 1100-1400 watch person to note the GPS position and distance/bearing to waypoint at the end of their watch, which Eric later plots on our Ocean chart. Yesterday we passed the longitude of Tristan de Cunha, leaving it a few hundred miles to our south.
So far today we are on a pace to make 170 miles, as we have been averaging around 7 knots. This is more than 10% of the distance remaining, and it is great to think that every day that percentage will grow, as the distance becomes shorter. Once we reach the Greenwich Meridian (440 miles away) we will be on the home stretch, though it is hard to think of 900 miles as being a home stretch!
I saw the Albatross flying about the boat again this morning, but by the time I came back with my camera he was gone. These birds are very difficult to photograph.
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