Location: 9° 16.5 S, 35° 11 W
Wednesday 12:00, 07.05.2006

Finally!

We are booming along with 12 -15 knots of wind on our beam, with the G2 Gennaker (AKA “The Bird”) flying, doing 8 knots! This after thousands of miles close hauled. We are all a bit stunned.
The noon position on July 5 was 09° 16.5S, 35° 11W. The wind is 100 degrees at 12-15 and our course along the coast to Salvador is about 220 — perfect!

We are about 10 miles off the coast, 45 miles from Maceio and 300 from Salvador. Towns going by last night included Dos Milagres, Ponta do Patacho, Ipojuca, Ponta des Pedras Pretas. The last seems to translate “The Bridge at Black Rock” — great name for a Western!

Yesterday was ship cleaning and today things look nice. Today we may even do a laundry wash, as we are good on water and power.

What we are reading:

Frank is just finishing “My Name is Red” by the Turkish author Orhan Pamuk. Max is reading the Operating manual for our ZF marine Drive.

Wahoo!

We are using the last of our lovely Wahoo in a fish stew with fresh potatoes and tomatoes. Max has made a culinary success out of Wahoo Fish Cakes, adding egg and corn meal to make a delicious and durable meal… Delicious in that they get eaten up promptly, either at the time of making or as a marvelous midnight snack. Durable in that if we had an emergency leak, they could be stuffed in and would hold for a week or so.

More! Soon!!

All is well.