orca on the move to the cook islands

hey there everyone!!
our position is 17* 18'S 153* 10'W speed is 4.8 knts ( motor sailing) compass 237T. we just started the engine as the wind died down, we had good wind last night sailed at 6-7 knots. Dorothy Marie is with us again and we have 2 other boats with us as well, Tin Soldier ( canadian) and SAnd Dancer ( Aussie/British) we have had a great sail all day yesterday!!, beautilful sunset, moon rise and sunrise so far!! we have traveled 94 nm in 20 hrs so we should make our 100 nms for 24 hr .

we had a big pancake breakfast aboard Orca III on Sunday am, Malachi, Dorothy Marie, Tin Soldier, Warm Rain - great time and fantastic pancakes! I love doing those breakfasts. ( hey Spruce Harbour time for a pancake breakfast if you haven't already had one!!) after that we went and out to the reef and swam with the stingrays. the rays here are not as friendly as the ones on Moorea, so we were not as relaxed!!! they sure have long tails!! so instead we came back to the boats and the kids all swam.
Maya learned how to dive ( back dive) and Emma is swimming in the ocean without her life jacket . she also learned how to dive . then the kids had a movie night aboard Tin Soldier and the adults on Orca ( we were supposed to play "oh Helll'0 but our generator puked ( steve's words) its oil , so instead Steve fixed that and Jay ( malachi) helped. its all fixed and working well.

we pulled anchor from Bora Bora Monday July 28 at 9:45 am . the kids and I all went for a swim in the morning before we left!! they are such great swimmers now, Kyle can free dive quite deep! scares me sometimes.

this so far has been a nice passage, hope it keeps up, I know they are calling for more wind and bigger seas, just hope not to much

take care
we caught 2 maui maui fish!!
Dionne