The wind kept getting lighter and lighter during the night. At the same time, it was veering to the south, enabling us to run with wind astern without heading west. At six in the morning, at the end of my watch and the beginning of Jon's, the two of us raised the main, erected the starboard spinnaker pole, replaced the storm jib with the staysail, jibed the staysail around and poled it out. Still not enough sail area. We shook the reefs out of the main, then had breakfast. When Jean got up, we replaced the staysail with the light yankee and are currently running with full main and poled out yankee. With all the sail area that we can muster wing-on-wing, we are averaging about five knots.
We are now at about the half-way point, in terms of distance. We have reached the latitude of Cape Mendocino, that infamous point on the California coast which sees gale force winds whenever the high gets very close.
At UTC 2200, July 24, 2012, we are at 42 26.201 N, 156 16.035 W. Our day's run was 100 miles.
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