orca3 location 03*18'S 13*59'W

we are sailing at 6.5 knots and have 20knts of wind, but with wind comes seas, so we are quite heeled over about 20*-25* depending on the wave. we are all feeling a little queezy when down below and have had to close up the hatches for all the salt water coming in. but if we keep this speed up we will hit land in about 3.5 days ! Yeah!!!! Dorothy Marie is right behind us, I mean right behind us and is working on passing us as I type this. All the other boaters on our nets are quite amazed that we
have been able to stay this close together. we have traveled over 2000 nm with only 480 to go!!
OUr water maker is still troublesome. we are making it into our 5 gallon jug and then dumping it into our tanks to try to flush out all the salty bad water. We have turned off one tank in hopes that we can flush out one and use that water then flush out the other. We also are still having troubles with the battery charger on the inverter so have resorted to charging the batteries off the main engine until we make landfall. so glad we are so close to land. other then those two things everything
else is working excellently. love the autopilot, not a single problem, he just keeps on working.
We caught another marlin last night around midnight.... a blue marlin around 3.5 ft long. and also a squid 1.5 ft long we put the squid back. but what a strange thing to catch on a fishing line.!! our buddy Glen of Dorothy Marie is quite jealous as he has caught nothing so far.... we will be sharing our marlin with him. we told him to come closer and we will throw it at him and he can " catch" it in his net and this would count for catching fish on the way to the Marquesas - hahaha

we seem to have picked up some speed and are heeling over more now, which makes it very hard to stay at the chart table......

by for now

Dionne orca III