A beautiful sunset on the water with wonderful cloud formations. hard to tell yet whether to tonight will be peaceful like last night, or have some whoppers in it - clouds seem to have yet to decide.
We're reaching along with the spirit of 83' and making excellent time toward the island. Good pace so far for a great day. The weather ahead will dictate when we finish, looking more likely to be in the early night of Sunday - since maintaining our current 1 hour average of 8.9kts seems unlikely!
We saw our first fishing boat leaving HI for the very waters we fished a few days ago. Definitely a sign of impending civilization. As we get closer, we will see increasing commercial fishing and other traffic - a slow ease back into the world of land and fixed objects.
The finish process works as follows (and may be viewable from the pacific cup website)
We will have a radio check-in to the finish line at 100 miles and 25 miles. 100miles is a long way, so once that happens we still have another 11-13 hours of sailing left. 25miles is about 3-4 hours and then we finish. The word used by the Pacific Cup is "pau" the Hawaian word.
In <1.5 hours, we will cross back into United States of America's national water. There are no signposts, but it is a bit of a warm feeling - a reunification of the little piece of USA we've been on, and the country she left just 11 days ago.
-Beqweeeee
July 29 0503Z, July 28 2203 PDT 1903HST
23 45'N x 154 53W 210nm from Finish
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At 7/28/2012 8:40 PM (utc) our position was 24°20.00'N 153°48.32'W
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