Good morning Beautifuls...
Well, we made great gains yesterday, over 170 miles and 98% of that was "good" or in the best direction towards Hawaii. We should be rubbing shoulders with the US Navy shortly. They are having a major exercise just Northeast of Oahu, an area that all of us Pac Cuppers will be sailing through at some point. We will probably see a destroyer or two. The Navy has been alerted to the fact that 70 or so sailboats will be slipping through the fleet. We will be sure to make nice to them as they have some very big guns.
Moon, stars, squalls, and nighttime driving are beyond description.
Everyone is getting a little tired and anxious to finish. discussion topics include family, animals, employment, wives, girlfriends, childhood, the meaning of life, the scurvy competition, and just about every other thing you can imagine. it would be appropriate to assume that everyone on board knows all your deepest secrets...
The boat took a very unanticipated roll a few days ago and Stevie, standing below in the salon, putting on his rain coat, took a tumble. He (Bam-Bam) banged his side on Dennis' chart table pretty hard ("you didn't scratch the table did you?"-Dennis). Pretty sore for a day or so. "Doc" Caplan fixed me up with ibupro-fun, and did his first aide thing on me. As an ultimate precaution he ran it by an MD friend who confirmed nothing to worry about. It was nothing near the severity, bruise-wise, as the arm thing back in March. As a matter of fact, there is no bruise visible at all! And he stayed on the boat. He feels great now, especially since we made up 3 1/2 hours on our closest rivals. Tiki Blue look out!! you only have 1h 29m ahead.
we all miss our respective SOs terribly. Tom says, as of this second, that we will get in around midnight (ugh) Sunday. But we will update you, especially as we get in cell phone range. Becky and Deanna are cautioned about having too much fun on the flight out.
Quartermistress (?)Becky needs a discussion about men on vacation.... we ran out of all alcohol on board days ago, we only have one cigar left and all the dancing girls jumped ship! we do have lots of bagels. how will we survive? the chef is designing a still....
Don't forget that Sail Mail is still giving us a hard time with the amount of time and bandwidth they will allow us, so don't be frustrated at the lack of e-mails. If we had our way, you would each get 10 a day!!
Very short emails only. we have been cut off by the SAilmail sheriff three times now!
Love and aloha,
Kepano, et. al.
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