Day 11 -There she blows

Another day and another 125 miles. The autopilot has been working very well with no complaints from the crew having our fifth crew member back on board.

We had an average afternoon but the winds really started to drop off so I rigged up the pole about 6 pm to stop the sail from flapping. We picked up our SOG to about 4.3 kts which everyone was really happy about as it had been a painfully slow afternoon with the wind at just the wrong angle to get the pile out.

I decided to leave the main furled in all night so we wouldn’t have any problems with back winding but I pulled it out to the second reef point at 6am this morning to help push us along, reduce the roll and get a couple more miles under our belt.

At about 7pm we saw a number of whales spouting on the horizon behind us. The sun was out and their spouts were silhouetted against the evening sun which was pretty cool.

A couple hours later Jed yelled out that there was a spout only 30 yards off our port beam. Kevin and I came out to see it but it never came back as close. Hopefully we will see some more whales as we get closer to land.

As of 6:03 this morning we had exactly 1000 miles to go. The wind looks pretty good for the next couple days so hopefully we will be able to knock off some serious miles while the wind is still consistent.