March 14, 2014
Logbook – March 14, 2014
Passage Log Highlights
- 0836 looking for the sea mound
- 1120 heading and sail change – main + genniker
- 1159 sail change – dropped main
- Min TWS 5.5 kts N
- Max TWS 12.1 kts N
Daily Notes
- Dolphins! B named one “Tricky” b/c he would barrel roll on command & slap his tail on the water
- Caught a booby (x2) (x3)
- English muffin bread (yum!)
Email sent to family and friends dated March 14, 2014
Subject: PPJ Day 4
Land ho! We passed Isla San Benedicto and Isla Socorro today. We zigzagged around a bit north of San Benedicto looking for a sea mound that is on the chart so we could do some fishing, but we never did find it. We had a nice visit from some dolphins, though. Brenden named one of them Tricky because he would barrel roll on command and slap his tail on the water. The wind was a bit dismal today, but we still plugged along at about 3 kts. It’s picked up within the last hour or so and now we are doing much better. We haven’t caught any more fish, but we have caught at least 3 boobies. Life is pretty normal out here, well, except that I just took my first shower this afternoon. Our path will be more SW from now on as we head for our tentative waypoint to cross the ITCZ of 7 N, 126 W. The ITCZ has been really low and really narrow recently, so I hope that holds up.
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At 3/14/2014 11:31 PM (utc) our position was 19°14.54’N 111°14.76’W
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