Friday Morning

If we had wanted to spend the first four days to Hawaii sailing upwind

in chop we would have done TransPac.  Pac Cup is supposed to be one day

of reaching and then downwind from there.  Oh well.  We held our own on

day one somehow able to sail upwind with the larger boats.  We don't

think that we were that lucky last night.  We do not expect a pleasant

roll-call standing this morning.  Our time will come.  It looks like we

are about a day and a half from finally setting a spin and heading

downwind.  We packed approx. 4000 cal worth of food per person per day

expecting to work it off trimming downwind.  Instead, each one of us

could probably win Nathan's by the time we get to the islands.

The boat is running well, the new instrument placement makes driving at

night much better.  The weather is cool but not too wet.  Heavy cloud

cover and we don't expect to see the sun til Sunday.

Michael