Well another great day sailing with the Genoa. We are again on a beam reach and managed to knock off 169 miles for the noon to noon run.

Jed and Kevin have been fishing for the last couple days without luck so I thought I would take my turn at cooking dinner for everyone.

Lasagna! After slaving away in the kitchen for at least three minutes pulling the lasagna out of the freezer, I find out that it will take two hours to cook. Oh well, better get on with it.

I made my specialty Caesar salad (romain lettuce and Caesar dressing) and pulled the lasagna out two hours later. Perfect!

We were clearly hungry as we ate about 5.25 lbs of the 6 lbs lasagna and all the salad, but it sure was nice to have a full meal.

We are still heading north and hoping the high will slide east. Not sure we will get that lucky but we will keep pushing North.

We had a pretty good run of 171 miles in the last 24 hours and speeds well over 8 knots at times. It has been great.

The seas have calmed down a lot and we have been blasting along on a beam reach. Although the wind instruments have not been working we keep sailing along! What a concept.

Last night around 11pm Ron and Jed woke me up as there was a freighter closing in on us. The freighter had come over the horizon and wasn’t overtaking us so it appeared we were on a collision course.

I was able to track the freighter on the Radar and MARPA and they were doing 21 kts about 2.5 miles away and were indeed on a collision course.

We watched the freighter for about two minutes and then he made a large course correction to port and passed behind us with lots of room to spare.

It was sure nice to know that the crew of the freighter were on the ball and also to know that our own crew was paying attention as well and had everything well in hand.

Meeting a 700′ freighter in the middle of the pacific in the middle of the night sure does make you glad you have crew on hand 24 hours keeping an eye out for you!

Needless to say it was very disheartening to break the boom yesterday. Although it isn’t completely broken it is virtually unusable and we have decided to carry on to Alaska as turning back would mean an end to this trip for the guys and our trip as family as well.

We had a great day sailing along with the Genoa alone and truth be told it is also a relief not to be worried about how many miles we reel off in a day. We will get to Alaska when we get to Alaska and there is nothing we can do about it.

Amazingly I slept very well and we also kept up a pretty good pace. Our noon to noon run was just under 150 miles and just under 300 for the first 48 hours, however I’m not going to be keeping track as closely as I did last time and I’ll just enjoy the ride.

Besides, last time I had places to be and people to meet!