just siling along 01* 44.184' s 132* 47.660'w

We are sailing!!! slowly mind you, but got some good wind last night, got up to 5 knts. looking forward to the south trades. hope we get some 20 knowt so we can really sail, turns out I ( Dionne ) love the speed, so have been playing with the sails and course to get some. too bad our spinnaker bit the dust, these winds we have right now could use that sail. We have actually got ahead of Dorothy Marie , which is quite the feet as they have been ahead of us most of the time ( except we crossed the
equator first) we are only 10 nm apart so have been yacking on the VHF again and Emma and Maya have been playing hangman again with Sally. good fun. Our friends on Tillicum hit landfall yesterday afternoon and are quite happy to be there. Other cruising boat Tin Soldier hit the day before and went for a hike to a waterfall. We are all looking so forward to hiking there!! Steve managed to get some good water out of the water maker yesterday. he is taking it off each membrane seperately ( we fill
our big water jug and fill all water bottles) turns out one of our membranes is either plugged or trashed. The water we have in our water tanks has salt in it because of that membrane. glad we a temporary fix until land fall. We were getting a little low on drinking water, and I was not feeling to well. but all is okay now. At least we had the Dorothy Marie ready to give us some water if need be. good to have them back close.
I forgot to mention the time we crossed the equator . it was 0130 utc. Have not seen any sea life for a while, the big sea turtle being the last thing we saw and he was about 300lbs. no fish either. hope to catch some more soon though.

thats about it for now.... hoping to hit the westerly current soon, sure helps with the speed. we'll take all we can.

Dionne