***Life on board***
More of the same here on the open sea. We busied ourselves reading and fooling ourselves into thinking we saw a boat on the horizon only to find it to be a capping wave. We have been now 7 days without seeing another boat or any other humans for that matter. (We saw one boat our first day out). We had a snack of canned fruit today and also the Ginger Snaps which were opened just yesterday are now mysteriously gone (big surprise). For dinner I made a tuna soup macaroni casserole which was pretty good. We also finished up the last of the chili and rice from the night before.
I found this morning the largest flying fish I have yet seen. He was about 8 inches long and I took a picture. We also found another squid (this one bigger) sun-baked onto the windward side deck.
I also furthered out course on my plotting sheet and took today a morning sight, fore-noon sight, noon sight, and after noon sight. Thought the moon is out earlier each day it is hard to shoot a sight of it because it has been very faint. At night the horizon cannot be distinguished for taking sights and I have yet to master the morning and evening twilight sights of stars and planets. Those require some planing and pre-calculation so that you can take the sights quickly before the the horizon disappears in the evening or the stars disappear in the morning. I'll be working on it.
***Communication***
We managed to miss both morning and evening nets today first by sleeping in and then by watching a movie. OOps. We will be sure to check in tomorrow morning.
***Weather***
Nothing new. Good wind, going fast.
Position (11:00pm):
06 deg 05' S
109 deg 44' W
Alan and the Crew