Speed

No speed records for the past few days, 90 miles yesterday, today about the same. I’m hoping for a bit more wind tomorrow.

I had a fabulous nights sleep and slept past the sunrise.  

Today has been 10kts from the east and blue skies. The main is up all the way up and out to the starboard. The jib is all the way out and poled, but luffing away. If I roll it up Namaste waddles terribly, so I leave it out and let it slap away, it’s “staying” the boat.

This morning I made oatmeal with flax, raisins, and walnuts for breakfast.  For lunch I fried up some onions & potatoes and added a can of beans. My onions and potatoes are on their last legs. I need to cut out the bad parts.

For all intensive purposes I have been at sea for a month (18 days from Galapagos).  My legs yearn to walk, and my stomach desires a nice sit-down meal, not this Easter. I can hardly wait to lay my eyes on the shore.

I spent much of the day, day-dreaming and working on my memories. My earliest memory puts me at about three and a half when I cut my hand open on some glass in central park. Traumatic memories seem to have more of a dig in the memory bank.

I started Clive Cussler’s “Sahara” today. On the front it says it is to be a major motion picture starring Matthew McConughey, did that ever happen, and was it a good movie?

Happy Easter everyone.

– Alex