Last night we passed the quarter-way marker. Our day's run was 131 miles. We are now 1966 miles from Honolulu.
We are all alone out here, at least as far as we can tell. We have seen no other vessels in the past 24 hours, either by AIS or with the naked eye. When you consider that the AIS is working to 20 or 30 miles out here, the isolation is rather awesome.
The last few days have been overcast much of the time. The solar panels, consequently, have not been producing as much electricity as I had hoped. I have now had to run the engine twice to charge the battery banks and it appears I will have to continue to do this every other day. Fortunately, we have plenty of diesel fuel for this and while charging batteries but not propelling the vessel at the same time, the engine runs cool.
I bought a lot of very delicious tomatoes in Cabo San Jose. They are, unfortunately, all gone now, mostly spoiled. I wish there had been a convenient source of green tomatoes. I have also lost a couple of carrots and a couple of grapefruit, but the apples, cabbages and oranges are doing well. We will not starve, however, even if all the fresh produce goes bad because we have lots of dried and canned goods.
At 1800 UTC on June 9, 2012, our location is 23 05.908 N, 122 38.282 W
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