We now have California off the beam and continue to sail non-stop in 15 to 25 kt winds with occasional, and always at night, blips up to 30 kts for several hours. For much of the past two days we have been sailing with just the main, either double or triple reefed on a very broad reach making 5 to 7 kts overground. We gybe once in the morning and once in the afternoon, all under bright sunshine or a very bright full moon. What could be better?

On Saturday night we found the ocean cluttered with fish boats but since then, we have seen two tankers and that’s it? The ocean is empty out here at around 150 miles offshore.

We are now angling into Long 125W south of Cape Mendocino (the Cape Horn of the North Pacific – kind of) and hope to avoid untoward events so common in that part of the ocean. All going well we will be San Francisco sometime on Thursday.