April 1- april fools day and Greames birthday!!

good morning all, and a happy Birthday Graeme.

we are plugging along at 4 kts. not a lot of wind over the last 12 hours. We have had full main and genoa and even had the spinnaker out. Orca III is not a light wind boat!! our current position is : 15*51.35'N 115*24.88'W our compass heading is 255* . Apparently the trade winds are at 119* W so we are getting close to having our winds to make us move. Our buddies on the Dorothy Marie are loving being ahead of us, cause they know it won't be for long.

Last night during Steve and Kyles watch a flying fish landed in our cockpit! Bummer I didn't get to see it. but it was very blue and had big wings for such a small little guy. So thats one squid and one flying fish so far.

We are having to make do on some things, the generator is now wired right to the panel which means no inverter. Steve switched inverters before we left and now this one is glitching out. so in order to use the computer we need to run the generator, so that means not a lot of computer time. But that's okay , he will switch back to our other one once we are in the Marquesas. Everything else is working well.

The kids will be playing hangman over the radio today with The Dorothy Marie- this should be fun.

well signing off for now.

love ya Dionne