Routines are in motion, the ocean is determined to slow us down and the TTG (time to go) component on the GPS unit is still indicating over 10 days to go.
We have come further north so that we might find the balmy doldrums of the equatorial region and make better headway away from the easerly trades that we have been fighting to date but instead of calm, this evening it is anything but and we are actually in the middle of some very squally and generally disagreable conditions.
As we do progress slowly east we have to adjust the clocks on board for each time zone that we pass. Today we have advanced one more hour, it is no big deal but just as you get settled to the routine you loose an hours sleep and then again in a few days and one more time after that. I think it is a slow form or torture but we must all like it somehow because here we are still going this way and that over these vast oceans.
The film that was playing in the crew mess this afternoon was 'Mutiny on the Bounty' There is a clear theme running here! We have today past the point of no return and are no longer able to divert to Hawaii. One of the crew had met a girl there on one of our previous visits and was looking forward to returning. He is clearly out of luck but the adventure continues, I hear also that there is an abundance of great boobies to be seen in the Galapagos.
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