Day 2 - Longest Sailing Leg on Earth
Harmonie
Don and Anne Myers
Tue 11 Mar 2008 19:25
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01:13.363S 94:34.975W
We continue to have wind from a proper direction,
no rain, and what's this? A positive current. Yes! All is right with
the world. So much for the weather forecast. We aren't complaining
though - we are making good progress, trying to get south to around 5 degrees,
where we will turn west, assuming the southeast trade winds cooperate.
>From there it will be a longggggggg trek westward to the island of Hiva Oa
(pronounced Eva Owa) in the Marquesas island group.
To liven up the blog during this endless trek, we
have decided to provide you with one semi-useless Marquesas related factoid per
day.
Marquesas Semi-Useless Factoid #1:
The Marquesas island group is the farthest
island group from any continent in the world.
I think this means that when we arrive there,
we can truly claim that we are as far in the middle of
nowhere as humanly possible on this earth (which is not all that different from
the time we spent living in Murray, Kentucky).
In the meantime, we continue to get reacquainted
with life at sea. We are currently multi-tasking - sailing, updating
the blog, generating power, making water and running a load
of laundry. Bet you can't do all that at home.
More tomorrow -
Anne
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