[password]Renfred
[position]30 07.764n 147 40.764w
[status] Our two hitch hikers that we thought were Cormorants turned out to be Red Footed Boobys. We renamed them Brian and Beryl. Brian took off yesterday and hasn't returned and the same with Beryl. I miss them, but not the guano left behind :-). It was simply amazing to have such large beautiful birds so close that we could touch them. We have had a change of weather systems and now have 35-30 knots of wind on the beam and fairly lumpy seas as we head for shelter under the wing of a big high pressure zone between here and the straits of Juan de Fuca, the entrance to Georgia Sound where Victoria is. Straightline only about 1200nm, a bit like going to Fiji! Just a tad colder lol. We should be in the high zone tomorrow morning and a bit less wind and quieter seas. The temperature is dropping daily, we will probably need jackets and beanies soon. We will look like Noddy and Big Ears lol. The mainsheet traveler fell to bits so the boom is held to the traveler track by several turns of rope instead which seems to be working fine. We double reefed the main and rolled up half of the jib a couple of hours ago as the wind started getting over 40kn, but it has settled a bit to around 30kn now. Our current course puts us almost on a direct line to Canada. It's a bit like being in a washing machine on spin cycle at the moment, but we are comfortable enough.
[speed] 5.0- 6.0kn
[heading]020T
[weather]//20-30kn ENE 70% cloud cover.
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