day 7 was a busy one for david -- made his famous curried cornbread with onions for breakfast, plus scrambled eggs made with lots of butter (I swear we ate nothing but butter and cheese this entire trip, yet we all lost weight!) -- and then he whipped up three small pizzas (made on tortillas instead of regular pizza crust) for dinner, as we celebrated *nearly* reaching our halfway point with a bottle of red wine and tasty treats...
(berkeley yacht club members will recognize the t-shirt...!)
at noon PDT, we were located at 32° 49' 0" N, 145° 29' 5" W -- that's something like 155 nautical miles in 24 hours (it varied depending on whether we looked at our distance coming or going -- we'd travelled 160 miles from pearl harbor but only 154 miles toward SF), leaving us 964 n.m. from hawaii, and 1167 n.m. to home -- almost halfway!
skies were thickly overcast all day -- I remember seeing a small break in the clouds late in the afternoon and saying, "it looks like a seal's breathing hole from underneath the ice..." Mouse, David and I all did some laundry in a bucket, so the cockpit was decorated with our things hanging out to dry -- and I read most of my friend Ellen's master's thesis, which strangely took my head completely out of the boat for a while -- hard to readjust to being in the middle of the ocean when i put it down!
Tim told us we'd cross the halfway point sometime during the night, so we opened our wine with dinner to celebrate a little early, and Mouse opened a halfway present from her husband -- such a sweet man! and sweet was the right word, he'd packed TONS of chocolatey treats into the box, plus a book and a video and some various other snacks. thanks Rick, we all greatly appreciated them!!!
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