Day 3 update

Well, I've got to tell you, synoptic winds are nice! It took us 53 hours but we finally found them and have turned to sail directly towards Hawaii and made good progress over the past 15 hours or so. Winds are forecast to build over the next 24 hours and eventually shift to the NE which will allow us to get a spinnaker up. In the meantime we keep blast reaching along at 8-10 knots. Did I mention we added a few more sail changes yesterday? We are now up to 8 for the race. Our daily boat inspections have found some work to attend to. The port primary winch was starting to get noisy so we took it apart and added some winch grease - problem solved. We had to drop the genoa to repair some tears - we like sticky back! This morning we noticed that a sheave in the outhaul purchase failed (as in many pieces) which wouldn't allow us to sufficiently flatten the main. We were able to mcguyver a work around. Probably need to replace that block in Hawaii before we head home. Crew moral is good especially now that we've found the wind and are tracking towards Hawaii. Southwestern casserole was awesome last night - thanks Cindy! Oh yeah, today we put out the trolling line for the first time - nothing yet. We encountered a few commercial vessels and had a nice radio conversation with one that passed behind us about 3 nm away. That's it for now, we'll just keep truck'n away. Hi to everyone ashore.

Aloha,

Tracy & crew