Windy

by Bob

Yesterday we decided to turn southwest in search of wind. We found some. A good part of the night we had wind in mid-20s with gusts
to 30. The max boat speed for this trip is now 19 knots. With a spinnaker. We were doing 12-15 off and on most of the night. I was
nervous, afraid we'd break something. But there's no damage.

We didn't want to go too far south, so we jibed. We waited until sunup because it's easier to do the man-overboard stuff in
daylight. Shortly after we headed back northwest, we lost the wind. Most of today and this evening the wind has been back down
between 10 and 15 knots, and we're going about half that.

Now we're going southwest again. We expect to arrive in Honolulu on my birthday (November 23), Wind is 11 knots, water temperature
75.2F, barometric pressure is around 14 psi.

We're going almost directly downwind (within 5 degrees), with the spinnaker on the left and the mainsail on the right.

We were dragging a rope underneath the boat this afternoon, in order to slow us down and give the other boats a chance. After all,
it would be embarrassing to Pyewacket if we beat them to Honolulu. I heard a humming noise and finally figured out it was a rope
vibrating in the water. Somehow it jumped off the boat and hooked itself from one hull to the other under the water.