Position: S26deg28min;W124deg30 min. Day 8's run: 129 nm. We've been running straight down wind for over 24 hours and the wind vane is liking it, much to my surprise, as most folks will tell you that wind vanes don't steer very well dead down wind. The wind has still been about 20 knots; seas are still 8'-10'. By forecast, the wind is supposed to calm down to less than 8 knots later tonight for us, so we're hoping we can sail in the rest of the way using our light wind sails (we carry a code zero and a reacher-drifter; they're large, light weight nylon sails used on different points of sail depending on what direction the wind's coming from) as we don't carry enough diesel to motor the last several hundred miles. 311 nm to go.
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