I must say that bashing upwind in 12 kts is a whole lot nicer than 25 kts! Mostly, the passage was uneventful, and we are all comfortable enough. We didn’t catch any fish, but there were rainbow runner taunting Brenden from behind the boat. He just couldn’t stand it. He grabbed a pole spear, clipped on, and tried to spear them from the back step. Rainbow Runner: 1, Brenden: 0.
The Rainbow Runner were taunting Brenden
Sing-a-long with Alex at sunset on passage to Jaluit
Passage from Kwajalein to Jaluit
When we left Kwajalein, we really didn’t know where we would stop next. Tim kind of had his heart set on Ebon, but I was reluctant since that would take us further to the west only making our battle back to the southeast that much more of a bash. In the end, we decided to hug the lee sides of both Namu and Alingalaplap for brief respites from the choppy sea state and made it to the atoll Jaluit.
Hours underway – 2 days, 24 min
Track distance = 221 nmi
Average Speed Over Ground (SOG) = 4.6 kts
Engine hours: Port only 3:14, Both 2:57.
Gresham Family Exodus 