Not much new to repost today except that we had a 986 foot long ship (size and name determined from broadcasted AIS information) pass within 2 miles of us. Also a boat called “Kiwi 986” was unsuccessfully trying to reach the US Coast Guard on the VHF radio, so we finally replied to see if we could provide any assistance, but they appeared to be military, asked our position and never returned the favor of asking if there is anything with which we might need assistance. I mean we have a critical situation of hundreds of bananas and no ice cream. There maybe a few ships out here, but for important things like ice cream, we truly seem to be on our own.
Speaking further of food, Wade made a pot of spaghetti today using a jar of canned hamburger for the meat. And the leftovers should carry us into tomorrow.
At noon, our position was zero degrees 51’N and 159 degrees 30’W. Over the last 24 hours we only made 103 miles towards our destination of Penrhyn Island and we have 585 more miles to go. It appears we should have cleaned the boat bottom before leaving Fanning as we are not traveling very fast. But today the seas have been bigger with winds of about 20 knots out of the east, and sailing as close into the wind in big seas is slower. Also it looks like our crossing of the equator may occur just a little before midnight.
Wade and Sara
