by Bob
Today we passed by Nihoa Island. It is pretty odd looking. It's less than a mile long, with tall, steep cliffs on the north side
where we sailed by. The cliffs are several hundred feet tall, the highest at 910 feet. There are lots of sea birds flying around the
island and around the area for miles.
Yesterday we stored away the scuba gear and today we broke out a bicycle and stand for stationary biking.
Today we had a woman overboard drill -- we took down the sail and everything. We need a few more practice runs before we get into
the cold water around Alaska. Hopefully we'll all stay clipped in outside and won't have to worry about retrieving people.
We have harnesses we use in rough conditions and at night to keep us attached to the boat. We also have man overboard beacons we can
carry so when we fall overboard, an alarm goes off and the place we fell in is marked on the GPS. That is handy if only one person
is awake.
It's midnight, June 16. We are 810 miles from Midway and 79 miles from Necker Island. Today I read about the Saganaw, a
steam-powered sailing ship that wrecked on Kure Atoll (Ocean Island) in about 1869. Five people of the 93 stranded took a small boat
from Kure to Kauai, over 1000 miles, for help. One of the five survived, and all the others were rescued after a few months on the
small island. We hope to do something similar.
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