Halfway

After a very hard night's work, we're rewarded at this morning's roll call to find we've taken a 17 mile bite out of Nancy's lead. We flew the "chicken" kite all night in 18-26 knots breeze with no moon, 100% overcast skies, and big lumpy swells. I'm pleased to report I was the last driver to round the boat up, so there. We did a gruelling 3 hours on, 1 1/2 hour off watch system throught the night to keep 2 bodies on deck at all times, and rotated drivers every 30 minutes. I think Doug is the only one to get into the 15's, but Shawn and I have a couple of 14's so not too far off.

Last night was the first of our Trader Joe's packaged food- unrefridgerated "real" food in sealed pouches, and not too bad.

We're in a bit of a wind shift now and have jibed to port pole, a massive relief as steering with our left arms was going to eventually turn us all into left-side-Hulks, right-side-Pee-Wees. We have Jamani about a half mile astern now, closing slowly. They're a J120 that started two days after us.

Uh oh, two miles to halfway, dunno what we're doing, hope it involves a beer!
-C