[password]seabird14
[position] 10 32.9 N 056 49.5 W
[heading] 285T
[speed] 6.5kts
[weather] 16 kts ENE, seas 2.0m NE, cc 30%, 1017 mb, 87F
[status] DAY 26 299 nm to Grenanda. Stbd run sgl rf main and staysail, 6.5kts at 285T. For the first time in more than a week we have been able to open a few hatches and get some air flowing through the boat. While it is still warm air, the movement makes all the difference. This point of sail, virtually dead down wind with a beam on swell, makes for quite a roll. We got out the travel Scrabble board yesterday and Sophia used her engineering skills (no doubt acquired from her mom, the rocket scentist) to design a system of lines strung about below so none of the players had to leave the comfort of their day bunk to stagger across and deliver the board to the next in line. Using gravity, Kailani's roll, a carbineer and a bag, when you finish your turn you simply put he board in the bag, clip the bag to the right line and send it on its way. Voila...Zip Line Scrabble. (patent pending).
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If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.