34.30 N, 133.48 W @ 10:28 PDT
Heading: 180 true Boat Speed: 2 knots Wind: 5 knots Swell: 1.5 – 2 metres Sky: Overcast Temperature: 18 C Miles in last 24 hrs: 20
Grey again today and there are more ‘search lights’ burning through the clouds looking for escapees. The sea is still high but undulating under a great grey aquatic skin. Half an hour ago, in the middle of tea and porridge in the cockpit, a ruffle of wind like goose bumps moved across from the west and covered the water. I hoisted the main and jib after dropping them around 9:00 last night and we are headed for the equator. I was visited by a young dark feathered wandering Albatross last night at dusk and again this morning. Van Morrison is beating out “Brown Eyed Girl” and I am having flashbacks of the sixties.
Another significant event late last night. I tore my jeans and just like I did in the 60s, I tore off the bottoms and sit here this morning in cut offs, no shirt, my hair has not been combed in a week, and I haven’t shaved. Brown Eyed Girl, cut offs, no shirt, no shave, no comb, no socks no shoes, in a warm breeze on a sail boat in the Pacific. I’m in heaven!

Glenn atop the Empire State Building in NYC with the Twin Towers in the background. Here he is unshaven, uncombed, in cut-offs circa 1969. Some things never change.
There is lots of garbage in the water everywhere this morning. A fish net passed by about 2 meters square followed by a section of wooden wharf about 12 ft square. Glad I didn’t meet that three days ago surfing down one of those waves at 9 knots.
Also to my great astonishment and delight a school of mahi mahi, about ten of them, just drifted out from under the boat. I guess I’ll have to go fishing today. First, I must go up on deck and deal with the sails.
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