DAY 25: Tuesday May 3, 2011
Position: 19 degrees 29 minutes North, 152 degrees 25 minutes West
About 150 miles to go…
We are definitely getting land fever now. Last night was so rolly not much sleep was had by any of the crew. But today dawned brilliant and sunny with much much calmer seas and winds and both Lori and I were immediately pestering Tim - when can we put up the spinnaker?? So about 10 AM the spinnaker went up, the boat evened out and the crew all had well deserved naps (in turns). We may make it to Hilo tomorrow depending on the winds, and if not, then it'll be on Thursday. It's either been to rough, or we've been too tired to fish since Jane caught the Mahi, but maybe tomorrow on our way in!
We've already changed time twice this trip - the first time we skipped two hours, then one more, and today we're going to make the final change to Hawaii time! It's been pretty strange sailing so far west that we can really tell that we're no longer in the right time zone, as the sun starts to set later and later, and come up later and later. The watch schedule we've used has Lori on for the sunrise (6 - 9 am) and it was getting so that most of her watch was in the dark!
Still waiting for that first glimpse of the mountains on the Big Island, and to smell the land…. Our next post may be from land!!
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