Day 13 Galapagos to Marquesas

16 March 2024

Another sunny day with fabulous downwind cruising. Our resident boobie sits on the spreaders and watches over the circus. We listened to the ARC ralley sked this morning and decided we are once again “lucky” with the weather, and have picked our routing well. ARC yachts are 120nm further north, have a counter East flowing current and have either no wind or 28 kts – Typical ITCZ conditions that we are skirting. We have 0.5-0.8 kts of current with us, and 14-20kts from the ESE, providing a perfect sailing angle for a displacement yacht such as Sunday Island with TWA 150-160. Our only sailing concern is that we are going too fast to catch Mahi Mahi and have eaten all our frozen supplies. We have lost most of the Mahi lures to Marlin, but have one in reserve that we will bring out as we get into island waters and slow down to 6kts.

Bilge checks and cleaning this afternoon amongst kids entertainment buiding a paper city in the saloon. Emilie baking muffins and biscuits as fast as we can eat them. I am reading a book about the origins of Polynesian migration and seafaring, plus passage planning for the Marquesas, Tuamoto’s, Society Islands and beyond.