Very similar to yesterday. We had wind last night through around noon. Then it dies in the afternoon. At the moment we are becalmed. Hopefully it will pickup in the early evening. We have decided to not motor and wait for the wind in order conserve fuel for charging batteries. No serious shortages, just being conservative.
I made the first contact with the Pacific Seafarers Ham network. We will try to do a daily check in. The net comes on in the late afternoon 6pm HST. It nice to have people to talk to and we may hear from other boats in this area of the Pacific. They can also do phone patches and it might be possible to do a phone call home via the radio.
We tried to use the Asymmetrical spinnaker to see if we could get a little more speed. It turned into a bit of a fire drill as we lost the halyard up the mast and the spinnaker got caught on the spreaders. Chris went up the mast and got the sail down and retrieved the spinnaker. We then tried again and got it up successfully. Then as on script the wind died. Maybe another day.
We also caught a small piece of old fishing net on the rudder. It was easy to get off with the boat hook. We will be bringing it home with us as it’s really to have this stuff floating around in the ocean catching fish forever.
In our current becalmed state, Chris and Steve went for a quick swim. They said it was very enjoyable and reported that the boat’s keel is still attached 
Bob
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At 8/31/2009 (utc) our position was 28°18.39′N 155°43.71′W
