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Great Miles

We've been making great progress, which I suspect you can see on the tracker. I had hoped to smash the 180 nautical mile barrier in the last 24 hours. We managed 90 nautical miles in 12 hours, but the average dropped during the very early morning. Conditions are perfect, and we've picked up a solid southeast breeze hovering around 13 knots, giving us a great push in the right direction. The long-term weather forecast suggests we can expect to keep this breeze for at least the next ten days.

It's completely overcast again this morning, but yesterday we started to see some blue skies and fluffy clouds, the kind of weather you'd expect with the trade winds. We're still seeing fishing boats from China and Korea, harvesting whatever they can from the rich waters of the Galapagos. And these aren't small boats – they're over 60 meters, so their appetite is huge.

 We haven't had any splashes on deck, and there are only occasional whitecaps, so I had my hatch open about 20mm to get some air into the cabin.
Yesterday, I noticed a distinct oceanic olfactory offense but couldn't find the culprit for quite a while. It turns out a slightly plump flying fish (I'm not looking to fat-shame the poor thing) whose girth must have been 21mm was wedged in the tiny gap of the hatch. Luckily, I hadn't opened the hatch 22mm or I would have been washing bedsheets all day! Again.

To my absolute amazement, it's still cold! Like socks at nighttime cold, and now at 7 am I'm wearing jeans and a thick long-sleeve top.

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