Twelfth day out- The half way point, and a BOOM

Two exciting things happened today. (I know, big day out here)

#1 at 1400 on April 3 we hit the halfway point of the trip. It took us 11 days to cover 1520 miles and we are on track to  cover the next 1520 in 9-10 days based on our latest averages. We are heading directly to our waypoint of Honolulu now so it feels really good to see those miles reel off instead of playing cat and most with the wind.

#2 the boom vang went BOOM and the 8 bolts holding the rigid vang to the mast sheered completely off. We tried to drill out the SS bolts left in the mast but that didn’t work so we had to drill and tap 8 new holes. We managed to get the vang fixed in a little over two hours which is great, unfortunately we didn’t notice the broken vang right away because it was hidden behind the life raft and there was a little damage to the fibreglass, nothing major but just one more thing to fix down the road.

We are almost out of fresh fruit and veggies at this point and Jean has started a loaf of bread as we ran out of bread two days ago. Don’t fear as we have enough canned goods, rice, pasta and dried food to last us all the way to Hawaii.

Position update at 1200 local time April 4, 2016:
18 05.818 N
133 48.491 W
161 nautical mile noon to noon run
1368 nautical miles to destination
6.8 Kt. SOG
281 COG