[password] huck8finn
[position] 00 10.500s 177 07.000e
[weather] sunny all day, small puffy cumulus, light cirrus, scattered small squalls. Some early morning sailing winds, 6-8 kts.
[speed] 1.1 kts, (Equatorial Counter Current)
[heading] 70 T
[status] 20181208 0400 UTC, Days 18 & 19. 2 PonB, Douglas & Morgan, all is well. Outbound Fiji. Inbound Marshall Islands. -15 nm VMG. Although we're sailing a bit in the mornings, we mostly continue to drift, now a little more NE, further away from our destination than the day before. Someone, please make it stop. We had an excellent crossing-the-equator party, with swimming, games and a fancy dinner with a glass of wine (otherwise we are teetotalers on passage). The enhanced NE trades that we have been waiting for are a bit delayed and now GFS is forecasting a cyclonic cell near Majuro later in the week. This and the need to avoid a weekend arrival into the Marshalls means that we are now targeting December 17th for landfall. Egads. Oh well, lots of reading time. 590 nm to go (rhumbline).

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