Cruising with Soggy Paws

Cruising With Soggy Paws 2010

Soggy Paws is a 44' CSY Sailboat. In 2007, we set sail on a 10 year around the world cruise. In 2010 we finally launched into the Pacific Ocean and French Polynesia.

Friday, March 12, 2010

Enroute to Easter Island - Day 11

Are we there yet? Of course, we've been saying that since about the 2nd day.

Last night wasn't bad and today was OK. We had a lot of squalls today... passing rain showers that take the wind to about 20-25 knots and then the wind drops off to 5 knots. We can handle the 20-25 knot part (just a lot of cranking to furl the genoa in). But the seas are still so big that when the wind drops to 5 knots, there's nothing to keep us from rolling. So we ran the engine for about 2 hours today during the worst of the lulls.

We had a nice rain shower about an hour ago that was hard enough to wash some of the salt off the decks and windshields.

We're getting closer... 440 miles to go. At our current average speed of 5.7 knots, that will put us in at about midnight on Monday the 15th. We are anticipating some lighter winds the last day or so, so we'll probably aim to get in early on Tuesday the 16th.
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At 3/13/2010 1:52 AM (utc) our position was 20°36.49'S 105°31.14'W

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Labels: Easter Island, On Passage

Written at 6:10 PM by Sherry.

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