[password]tompkins
[position]08 28.8N 144 22.2W
[speed]7.3
[heading]310m
[weather] 14kn from 070 true. It is noticeably cooler. Finally got the NE breeze at 8 degrees north and we are rocketing towards Hawaii
[status] The seas smoothed out again last night and had good sailing under the full moon. Helped hubby through a hard squall around midnight. Near the end of my watch, at around 0400 hours, saw an ominous pile of clouds in the moonlight, bore off and eased the main. Hubby came on board to drop the jib. The moon was low in the sky and cast a gigantic moon-bow across the eastern sky. The entire solid white arc was boldly in view, and the morning star rose right up through the middle of it as the eastern sky was lighting up with the new day. Meanwhile, the moon shone through the cloud now to leeward, illuminating its high fluffy piles.....magic stuff!
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