Eleventh day out- Zoom Zoom

We’ve covered more miles in the last 24 hours that Asunto has ever done since she was trailered across the country on a flat bed truck!
Although I know this record (169 nautical mile straight line run) will be broken in the future, and hopefully even on this trip, it was nice to accomplish since it is essentially a 7 Kt average from noon to noon.

The boat did really well and the key was the steady 19-21 Kt breeze that just kept the wheels turning. We still had a lull from about 12-3 am, but were able to,keep our average up with some prolonged 8 Kt runs.

I’m hoping we will see a 175 mile day as we have some stronger winds coming up, plus we made the turn for a direct rhumb line approach to Hawaii today at noon so if the wind direction holds we won’t have too much messing around to keep the boat on route.

We are only 16 miles short of our half way point so we’ll be enjoying some halfway point celebrations later tonight!

Position update at 1200 local time April 3, 2016:
17 38.301 N
131 01.478 W
169 nautical mile noon to noon run
1536 nautical miles to destination
7.3 Kt. SOG
281 COG