Our chart tells us there is approximately 4400 meters of water below. This depth is unimaginable. As we approach the island of Wa'ab, or Yap, the depth plunges further to 7500 meters!
Two days ago we decided to set sail from Woleai, an atoll in Yap State, for the main island. A tropical low is expected to deepen near Chuuk and head across Micronesia over the weekend. We should be in port a day or two ahead of the low approaching.
Feeling the low "bearing" down, we are anxious to make progress. The first day wind cooperated and we did a 138 nm day on a close to beam reach. Now we sail between squalls and it makes managing our sails (and our progress) challenging.
Squalls have mostly masked the waning moon, though last night in the wake of a squall, the cockpit was suddenly filled with light and my body cast a shadow on the companionway. It was as if a someone behind bearing a search light had found little Carina in the middle of the ocean and said "ah ha, gotcha!"
At 2/19/2014 and 22:41 UTC (GMT) our position was: 08°38.99'N / 140°26.51'E.
We were traveling 300T degrees true at 4.4 knots.
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