In case you have been pondering this deep question, the ocean here is about 16,000 ft deep. We are geographically half way between Hawaii and the Bay of Islands, New Zealand, still in the Hawaii time zone 3 hours earlier than PDT. This is a long 5 - 7 day passage.
We found out how the Italian honeymooners can afford to stay at the Kia Ora. The custom now is for the wedding gift to be a contribution to the honeymoon fund.
And what birds have we seen? Red-footed and Brown Booby. That's it.
Barry wants you to know that in addition to our other misfortunes we have doused the bed 2 times with salt water. I wasn't going to mention it because it is so stupid to leave the windows open in rough seas! That means we have 1 set of clean sheets on the bed to last for the next month or more. That is unless we get a really good downpour, enough to rinse the salt out of the otherwise clean 2 sets of sheets and 2 bed pads! Pray for heavy rain with no wind, please! During the day would be better than night. And please pray that no one falls overboard trying to hang sheets and heavy mattress pads out on the line while at sea. This heavy downpour should come while we are at anchor about Sept 1.
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Where are those laughy face icons? ;) We have had soaked mattresses a few times ourselves. I left the forward hatch open in downward wind and got hit with a side wave, twice. We had no towels or sheets left when we arrived in Hiva Oa! In the Atlantic, I left the tiny port hatches to the aft cabin open. They are in the cockpit and we have the highest freeboard in the world. We got such big time water, it poured into the cockpit and through the ports (twice--talk about dumb--just couldn't believe it would happen again!) The blog is good reading guys, we're enjoying it.
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