After three days we've all adjusted to life at sea, despite three squally nights. This means that any of us - including Jake - can now sleep through sailing noises of squeaking rigging and waves slapping against the hull as the boat rockets up and down the sea swell.
In the interest of sleep and avoiding moments of terror, we're only running a small mainsail and staysail when a squall threatens. (We roll in the genoa.) We adopted this strategy because this is a period of little moon when the night is particularly black and also that some violent squalls we have had did not return dark radar returns and took us by surprise. This conservative strategy has allowed us to sail into squalls comfortably and for the watchman to be protected from the pelting rain by the dodger.
Boat life is normal, we're eating well and even baked our first bread of the passage.
At 5/24/2012 and 04:46 UTC (GMT) our position was: 03°17.56'N / 171°54.44'E.
We were traveling 142T degrees true at 5.7 knots.
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