It's very early morning and the muted lights from the instruments and the soft glow of the red cabin light down below barely illuminates the cockpit as we sail gently on a close reach towards the Philippines.
Late this night, long after the moon had set, we watched an electrical storm form on the radar screen and move inexplicably against the wind towards Carina; it's undulating amorphous shape on radar looked sinister. Somehow we managed to avoid this storm cell and its attendant flashes of lightening that turned an inky black night into day. Now, even though the radar screen shows no targets at all, lightning continues to strobe far away, so far that we can't hear the thunder and it is even sometimes hard to tell from which direction it is coming.
This is our third day of beating hard to weather in ideal conditions: wind between 10 and 14 knots and seas of only one and half meters. We're hoping our luck continues as we take advantage of this unusual weather window.
At 8/1/2014 and 21:07 UTC (GMT) our position was: 07°37.40'N / 130°43.43'E.
We were traveling 276T degrees true at 4.2 knots.
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