[password] Ridingmore [position] 00 26.6N 81 56.55W
[weather] 10-15 SW cloudy with relatively flat seas [speed] 6-7 knots with slightly sprung sheets sailing [status] More dodging fishing fleets off the coast off Equador over night, but we made good ground southwards in the last 24 hours so at 2am we tacked onto our new course at 262degrees, heading directly for the galapagos Islands (finally! Crew are stoked!!)The forecast suggests that further away from Equador we get the more the trades will come from the south, then east, so bring on the blast-reaching into the Galapagos!I'd expect we'd look to tickle over the equator tomorrow at some stage, so if you have any particulkar suggestions as to appropriate 'pennance to Neptune' for particular crew aboard Oceanus (!) then free text it to the sat phone (00881632648758) from https://messaging.iridium.com/ :)[END]
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails.