Sunday afternoon & plastic

Perfect day!
It is warm with about a 14 - 16 knot breeze.
Flying fish are around and we are sailing quite well between 6.5 and 8.4 knots.
The waves are only about 2-3 feet so the motion is very gentle.

Sunday June 14th  2:30 in the afternoon.
Position: 32.0033 degrees north    (32 degrees  0.25 minutes north)
       -151.8655 degrees west     (151 degrees 51.93 minutes west)
True wind: 14 - 16 knots
True wind direction:  200 degrees
Sea: 2-3 foot swell, small white caps

This morning after bacon and eggs we set the light large spinnaker and have been sailing with it since.  Quite a beautiful day. The water is starting to get cooler at around 72 degrees but it is still very blue.  Took some video and everyone took pictures today. We were going to stop and have another swim party but we just kept on sailing.
The water maker filled the large tank yesterday in 3 hours so we can continue to take showers.  :)  Everyone is glad for that.  Tonight we will Bar-B-Que a large London broil steak.  During the calm time the crew is either reading, writing, eating, sleeping or taking pictures.  There is no shortage of interesting conversation with sleep deprived people who like to talk.  We will post the pictures when we return. Fun!
Gautam's image of a 12 mile radius blue circle stays constant. We have seen one ship since we left site of Oahu but we quickly made him leave our circle of a few close friends.

Plastic floats! Too bad because until today we could not go an hour without seeing something made of plastic floating by. Buckets, balls, and other plastic pieces seem to be common.  As we get further north the quantity diminishes.
The scariest thing I saw was yesterday. We were sailing along at about 6 knots. Fortunately we were not motoring.  About 5 feet to our port side a large bundle of hemp floated by. It was 2-3 inches in diameter and maybe 30 feet long. It looked like it was a dock line from a freighter.  Something like that could have disabled the engine or prop if we hit it while motoring. It makes motoring at night worrisome.
But right now it is warm, sunny and we are sailing down wind with a beautiful spinnaker. No worries at the moment.

- Phil