Day 3, Oct 3

Hooray, we made it through our first night at sea.  Wed. was spent on more odd jobs and sleeping.  Alan made his first noon sight with Fiona’s compass and we worked on getting good with the GPS and iNavX software on the iPad and plotting our course on the chart.  Most of this day was out of sight of land.  Late in the day we  began to pass San Clemente on the back side.  This is where the navy practices firing and bombing and there were numerous messages on the radio warning vessels to stay clear of various locations.  None of them were close enough to us to worry about but we gave the island a wide berth.  We finally rounded the end of the island about midnight and set what we though was a good course for San Diego.  Alan went to bed and I took over.  Unfortunately the wind was now coming from the wrong direction and very light and try as I might, I could not hold the course.