[password] huck8finn
[position] 04 04.000s 175 31.000e
[weather] sunny, clear skies. some cirrus. light winds 3-9 kts SW to SE, mostly 6 kts. Seas calm, slight gentle swell.
[speed] 2.1 kts
[heading] 345 T
[status] 20181130 0600 UTC, Day 11. 2 PonB, Douglas & Morgan, all is well. Outbound Fiji. Inbound Marshall Islands. Because wind speed and direction are varying quite a bit, we've had to adapt our sail plan for easy single-handing during watch. We set up the whisker pole for the genoa which allows for broad downwind sailing angles...we were sailing on the lee a bit this morning. Checking Admiral W.H. Smyth's Sailor's Word Book, we are neither adrift nor becalmed, as I've said in previous posts. I'm not sure how, but we have managed to keep the boat headed in the direction we want, albeit sometimes at speeds around 1 kt. I guess we are just slow. At lunch we noticed a turtle swimming directly behind our boat. After playing around the boat a bit, the turtle swam on, passing us. 720 nm to go (rhumbline).

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