Thursday, July 15, 2010

Day Nine: Wednesday

[Sent to Moristotle for posting about 9 hours ago, or 4:30 p.m. Alaska Time on Wednesday]

We've had great weather today and good sailing.  We are having to jibe back and forth a bit and are not able to head straight to Hawaii due to the wind angle but we are making progress and hope the second half of our journey will go by faster than the first.  It is getting a little ripe down below but bearable.  We lost our dressing room to someone getting slammed into the door off a wave and breaking a hinge, so now our only place to "bathe" with baby wipes or change clothes is in the tiny aft head.  Unless you don't mind flashing everyone.
      We had a great halfway dinner last night; crab cakes, filet mignon, twice baked potatoes and asparagus with chocolate cake for dessert.  We also had lots of goodies that people had given us to open at halfway.  John's wife Dondi gave us some reading material--I think a National Enquirer and some "newspapers" of that nature.  People are spending a lot more time in the bathroom since those were put in there.  It makes a nice diversion if you are trying to avoid helping jibe the spinnaker or washing the dishes.

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