day 1 - out in the Molokai Channel

heeled over
Originally uploaded by lawatt

once we left Pearl Harbor, it was sails up and away!! the Molokai Channel is almost always windy (all those pacific breezes suddenly being funneled between two islands), so we put a reef in the main right from the get-go -- and as you can see, we're heeled over already, which will be the condition of our lives for most of the next two weeks.

I think we all (except maybe not Tim?) had taken some anti-seasickness pills for our first day out, so we were somewhat groggy -- David made us all cheese-tomato-and-cucumber sandwiches, which we munched while sailing past Honolulu, Waikiki, and Diamond Head on port tack -- once we got farther out up the Channel, we tacked onto starboard (which we then stayed on for a week). perfectly gorgeous day, other than a bit choppy in the Channel!