March 16, 2014
Logbook – March 16, 2014 (Punta de Mita to Hiva Oa)
Passage Log Highlights
- 1320 sail change – wing & wing
- 1448 T–> D genniker only
- Min TWS 10.1 kts N
- Max TWS 18.7 kts NE
Daily Notes
- Day 6
- Full moon – bright outside
- time change – 1 hour
- tuna x 2
- passed 10,000 miles
Email to family and friends dated March 16, 2014
Subject: PPJ Day 6
Today, Exodus passed 10,000 miles on her log. It’s not exactly accurate, since it’s dependent on the paddle wheel that gets gunked up when we sit at anchor for longer than a day and if we forget to spin it before we head out it doesn’t always spin. So, it’s a low estimate of Exodus’s total miles, but worth celebrating anyway, and tonight we celebrate once again with sushi. The boys got two more yellow fin tuna, this time even smaller, but the two of them together can make a nice dinner for us (with some veggies on the side). It was pretty windy all last night and into the day, as high as 24 kts. We rocked and rolled pretty good, but our San Felipe passage puts everything else in context. It’s calmed down now and we’re enjoying a comfortable run with just the genniker flying. We did a time change today, moving back an hour. The Marquesas are UTC -9.5 so it’s a difference of 3.5 hours from where we departed Mexico. We’ll likely do one more time change underway and then eat the last 1.5 hours on arrival. The time change will mean I won’t have to go to bed when it’s quite so light out and the sun will rise earlier in my morning watch. Tim said it was arbitrary to him, so I went for it.
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At 3/17/2014 1:14 AM (utc) our position was 16°51.23’N 115°26.95’W
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