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Ahoy ASA,
Well I make it to Hawaii from Seattle in 31 days. At an adverage of 76
miles per day for an adverage of 3 knots. That’s 2480 nautical
miles est..
I counted seeing over 50 ships, 3 longliners (one I hit his longline
at 0300 about 680 miles off the coast of California, and and came to a
stop, had to drop the sail and dive in to cut his mono line,must have
been over 10 miles long and I wasent in the mood to go around it,
also saw 6 other sailboats. One a 60 footer names Grace was the only
sailboat that came close enough to talk to the crew. They where amazed
I be out here all alone on such a small boat. It was out of San Deigo
headed to Hawaii.
The only disaster I had was pulling my sea anchor in after a storm and
finding out all the slime on it was Man-O- War strings or tenticals.
My hands where stung bad and swelled up like ballons for a day, just
took a **** before pulling it in, soo all I had was meat tenderizer to
treat it. Luckly it way a one tack day.

Worst sea day was on the June 11th.
Here are my log entrys.
0700 GMT June 11- 03
First light , no change in wind, still Force 7 and 8 from NE.
Waves are astounding!!! The problem waves are the little 8 to 12
footers that slap you around. The 20 footers are normally
roller-coaster rides. It is the next size up thats fun to watch. These
are way over 20 feet and are at least 40 feet and no problem. They
become the horizon to the ENE and WSW. When you first pass one looking
aft, it blots the horizon and the horizon stays blotted even as you
ride the middle 20 footers. These giant waves are about .1 to .2 miles
from crest to crest and if there were no other waves would be smoothly
defined. As it is, the 20 footers sometimes peak on the 40 footers,
causing some crashing waves as high as 50 to 60 feet (freak waves
except that these freaks are everywhere right now) and it is good to
avoid these as much as possible. The boat gets very wet from such
monsters. Very impressive site, these giants marching through the sea.
The best day was about mid trip 15 knots steady from the NNW and the
swells where about 25 foot but close to a mile wide, kept rocking me
to sleep. Ran thru a pod of sperm whales, one must have been 80 feet
long came right up to my boat and looked at me. Id swear its eye was
as big as a bowling ball She had a small calf about the same size as
my boat. Also had a wore out white parrot hitch a ride 5 days out from
Pearl Harbor. He slept the whole time on the boom next to the mast. I
set a bowl of trailmix out but he did not eat anything, took off when
I was sleeping, hope he makes it to land.
Ate alot of fresh fish caught trolling along flosum borders, mai mia,
tuna, dolphins, ling. All that eatin and I still managed to lose 30
pounds. Down to a trim slim 190 pounds.
Had one scary night that I smelled a ship but could never see it. Had
2 Navy Tomcats fly by low and supersonic that was cool! But that boom
rattled my teeth.
Had 4 days of no wind at all, got tired of waiting and motored for a
day until I hit a low pressure system with some wind.
For the last week I had the wind right on the nose, and I could smell
Hawaii’s pineapple fields 2 days out. The fresh fruit I had
onboard ran out or rotted the first week.
Will stay here in Pearl for a couple of weeks, have my boat anchored
just outside my hotel window with the Arizona memorial in the
background. Staying at the Harbor Shores hotel for a week then will
gunkhole around ohau then its off to Maui the valley isle for a 3 week
stay at a friends plantation that is less than 2 mile from iao neddle.
Have to go to sightseeing now, rented a couple of scotters heading to
diamond head, will try to post more later.

Hope your all enjoying your sailing.

Capt. American