Mar 26 Enroute to Pitcairn Island

Position: S28deg44min./W114deg52min. It's all or nothing. We either have winds and seas that are strong and confused, or no wind at all with big swells. I finally lowered the main as we're motoring right now in less than 4 knots of wind thru the aforementioned swells; the main was slatting something fierce. As it was, it was a good thing I lowered it, as it was ripped high up in the sail where visualization is difficult. So, out came the sail repair tape and contact cement. In these seas, I don't want to be hand stitching anything. We tried our code zero (a sail for light wind) sail earlier but the swells prevented effective filling of the sail with air enough to drive it, so we took it down, and then discovered I had wrapped the halyard around the headstay wrong anyway so it was just about chafed thru. Again, another lucky thing we dropped that sail, as it would have ended up in the water, making retrieval a pain, but the spinnaker halyard would have parted, and that would have been a problem. Seems like someone's looking over our shoulder; no major disasters...we're catching them early :) All's well aboard. Approximately 843 nautical miles to Pitcairn, although we don't do a rhumb (straight) line. Let's hope the winds and seas cooperate a bit more; it would be most appreciated by this crew!

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