Well we made it through the night but had to turn the engine on at this morning as the wind was all but gone. We were able to ghost along from 11am to noon which was a nice break from the engine noise but hopefully the high will pass over us and we will be on our way again.

The NOAA forecasts show the high 150 miles due north of us right now and trending slightly SE over the next 48 hours. If that forecast holds true we should be able to sail / motor sail / motor our way through the high and pop out on the other side.

We were able to pull the main sail out and I have it lashed down to help support the bent boom.

We were a little slower yesterday at 126 miles but all and all pretty decent considering we are getting closer to the high.

Everyone has put on pants but me. I’ll probably cave in the next couple days but I’ll push it as long as possible!

Well the boys finally caught a fish. It was a pretty small Mahi Mahi but there was enough meat for the three of us (Ron does not eat fish).

Jed looked back and saw the fish flapping on the surface and yelled “Fish on!” Do we all ran back to see the monster be pulled it.

We figure it was about 3 lbs, but had enough meat that Kevin cooked up which tasted amazing considering it was only an hour old when it hit our plates.

The wind died a little last night and we had to turn the engine on for an hour or so. It was pretty amazing that it went from 15 kts to glass calm and back to blowing 15 kts in an hour. Over the last 24 hours we still managed 153 miles which we are very happy about especially as we near the high!

As you may have read here, our boom has a significant bend in it and need to be replaced.  This is devastating for us and therefore we made a (difficult) decision to ask our friends and readers for help. If you are interested in helping us by contributing to having our boom replaced you can visit our GoFundMe page:

https://www.gofundme.com/helpasunto

If you are unable to help, please consider passing along this info to others. Thank you!