Hi Everyone....17th Mar...Life has now settled down on board the good ship....All is OK with us, no injuries although we all have a few aching joints from bracing and rope work....Still keeping the same point of sail for 12 Hrs then swap over  and are making excelent progress, this morning we had done 1277 NM our average is still in the 140 Miles / day, if all hold well we should be at the 1/2 way point Saturday Lunch time local.....Trivia.....The 2 iPhones we have on her are somehow keeping track of where we are as they have already changed a time zone by 1 Hour as we head more West wards, BUT they are no where near a signal so they cant be used as a phone!!! ....Caught another 8-9 Lb Dorade (Fish not a yacht fitting!) yesterday, we let it go to swim another day....Position for thse interested is...16.30,347 N    125.42,780 W...Course 167Mag....6.1 SOG's....Hope you are keeping up with the Blog especially "Kim Slog" it's funny...We will send another bulk email out Monday or Tuesday.....Regards and love to all from Mike, Jan and Kimbo XX

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Hi All....Today we crack the 1000 Mile mark on this leg...Presently we are 20.11 North    124.34 West....All is well with us here...No major equipment failures to report, our Solar and wind gen are giving us enough power to keep the 1,100 Amp Hr  battery bank charged up ..average for the last 6 days sailing was 142 NM/day... should be a good day today as we are doing a constant 6.5 SOG's..... Due to NE winds cant straight line to the islands (heading required 204 Deg) so are control jibing every 12 Hr (Thats changing course to non nautical readers) so we stay on track, serves us right for not getting a whisher pole before we left the USA, still she goes down wing with it 20 Deg off the stern OK without it ...Caught 3 fish yesterday, 2 tuna and a yellow fin, we let them go as they were too big for us to eat....Seen a couple of ships on this leg. Strongly recomend A.I.S. for any one thinking of getting it.  Ours is the Tx/Rx Raymarine. Yesterday I honestly picked up a ship at 624 Mies!!...Radar also works well, horizon for is is 24 NM...Best news is we are logging into the PPJ net each night and do position reports to them, 7 yachts are out there today with more expected as the Month goes on. Closest other yacht to us last night was 625NM but that will get less as we are all heading to the same place.... OK that about raps it up, will do another update in 3 or 4 days time or unless something of note happens...Love to all, Mike, Jan and Kimbo X

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Last posting before the big off (or should that be the big over?)
There will be no further postings here until we make landfall again in French Polynesia.
HOWEVER
We are priviledged to have aboard our own pet literary hotshot.
We don't know who he is, he just appeared one day and stayed, we'd throw him overboard if it wasn't for the fact that he writes funny stuff, so we're keeping him.  His ramblings can be read by clicking over there on the right where it says Kim Slog.
Just one personal soapbox moment before we say adieu:
If you are on holiday somewhere and come across a young girl with a small baby in her arms and a plastic cup in her hand begging for money, please, please do not give her anything because A: the baby probably isn't hers B: your money will not be spent on that baby and C: it's child exploitation at its very very worst and it makes me both sickened and angered. OK - vented. Out of here.
PS: Posted some new photos of the Carnival and of Mexico at the Picasa place -again, click on the link to the right.