7/11/22 update

Hi all, we've been moving pretty well yesterday and last night. Pretty slow going today. Our excitement in the last 24 hours was the lashing failing on the low friction ring that holds our tack line for the spinnaker. When did this happen you might ask? At 0230 last night of course. The good news is that I had the insight to add a safety strop around the bow sprit and the tack line. This way the load gets transferred to the strop rather than the bow pulpit (like in 2018). Disaster averted. We got the kite down, replaced the block and got the kite back up in relatively short order and off we went. Things are definitely getting hotter weather wise. Foulies, boots, etc are a thing of the past. Sunscreen, hats, shorts are now the clothing of choice. Half way should be Wednesday (less than 1,035 nm to go) and we hope our pace will pick up from there. Aloha, Tracy & crew