Sunrise

This morning as dawn broke we got a peek at the sun beneath the distant clouds. Overhead of the sun's glow on the horizon to east, the thin waning moon smiled crookedly and we could clearly see the stars of Orion's Belt, plus Betelgeuse and Rigel twinkling merrily.

There is no wind but there is overwhelming lovely quiet interrupted by the clunk of the genoa fairlead as we bob in the swell and drift with the current towards our equator waypoint. The swell and the distant storm clouds suggest weather in the region and we hope that with the atmosphere warming up, some of that weather comes for a visit, bringing with it its wind.

For now, we practice patience and rest from our wet, wild and fast first days.

At 7/31/2016 and 21:08 UTC (GMT) our position was: 03°25.56'N / 139°04.29'E.
We were traveling 104T degrees true at 1.7 knots.





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