29.05.6312N 148.30.501W

4:45 pm

First things first; Tiburon, you'll remember, was struggling when we left her. It turns out that Michael Morezadeh and his merry crew aboard Cayenne were in a position to help. They diverted to Tiburon and gave her their emergency water and a better emergency rudder. So, everybody's back on course to Kaneohe.

In other news, it's a magnificent day in the middle of the Pacific! Warm and sunny 15-20 knot breeze 6 foot seas, still sort of confused and lumpy, but a brilliant blue sea in the sunshine. Unfortunately, our fearless leader is a little less fearless in the wake of our rather spectacular gymnastics a couple of nights ago, so we've been toodling along rather sedately under main and winged out genoa, instead of blasting along under chute like we should. We're probably losing at least 20-30 miles a day with the super conservative approach. Oh well, no trophies this year, but there's worse places to be.

Whiskey Delta Bravo 2898 VALIS out.