these tiny tidbits of land that are the hawaiian islands gradually disappeared over the horizon as we sailed through our first afternoon and evening -- David somehow made us fresh homemade miso soup on that first night (despite 15-20 kts of breeze and not exactly flat seas), hot and simple and delicious, and we settled into a watch schedule that would stick for the entire trip: we did watches in girl-boy pairs (me and David, Liisa and Tim), rotating every three hours -- so David and I were on from midnight-3am, 6-9am, 12-3pm, and 6-9pm, taking turns steering the boat & generally looking out for (essentially nonexistent) ships.
we also decided on this first day not to fuss with time zone changes, so we simply set out clocks to pacific daylight time, so that we'd be in the right zone once we arrive in SF. since hawaii is 3 hours behind SF, our clocks didn't "match" the progression of the sun while we were still in lower latitudes -- and David and I turned out to have the best possible watch schedule, as we missed the hottest part of the day (3-6pm in the lower latitudes) and we got the best watch of all, when you transition from dark night to sunrise (6-9am). smarties, us!
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