Nov 4, 2012 Sunday, at sea

After a difficult night watch trying to stay on course, it is a beautiful morning.  The weather is getting noticeably warmer.  After breakfast, alan gets to work with ropes and pulleys and creates a system to stop the sail from crashing around when we are on a downwind tack.  It is officially called a “preventer”.  Wow, what a difference.  No more crashing at the slightest miscalculation or wind shift. 

We are out of sight of land but see other boats off in the distance from time to time.  Another day and another night of sailing along, writing down our latitude and longitude every hour and checking the chart to see how we are doing.