We have now been at sea for over 24 hours. Everything is well and we are making progress north. Our general plan is to sail north until it’s possible to start sailing east. We have the services of the “Weather Guy” who is doing weather routing for us. He sent us an initial course to sail and will send up periodic updates and adjust the course based on the weather. It should take some of the chance out of the journey.
Last night we had some squalls with rain and wind, but not too bad. Today was sunny and warm and the wind pretty steady. It’s not coming from the direction we had expected, but will have to do. Hopefully it will be more from the east tomorrow.
We had a Gannet land on the bow pulpit today and it’s still there as I type. I guess we have a new crew member 
Bob
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At 8/27/2009 (utc) our position was 23°47.35′N 158°43.86′W
Safe journey guys. We will follow with interest.
Tracy (Steve’s Sister)