Today was very much like yesterday, except that the wind was a bit weaker. Our day's run was 122 miles. Near the end of the morning the sun peaked out through the clouds. We hope that is the start of a trend, because it has been completely overcast these past few days.
We have not seen a boat or ship of any kind for at least three days. Naively, we had been thinking that as we approached Hawaii we would be crossing shipping lanes between the far east and the Panama canal. We were wondering exactly where we might encounter this traffic so that we could be especially vigilant. This morning I used a software package called "Visual Passage Planner" to design a route from Japan to Panama and saw immediately that the great circle routes from the far east go way north, very close to the Aleutian islands, and then run down along the west coast of Canada, the USA, and Mexico. We passed the locations where these routes would cross our path many days ago, so that explains, in part, why we see no boats where we are now.
We saw large porpoises yesterday evening. The way they were jumping around it seemed they were feeding. There must be fish here. This afternoon we are going to rig our fishing gear and try to catch a tuna or a mahi-mahi.
At 1800 UTC, June 11, 2012, we are at 23 33.577 N, 127 16.071 W
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