I don’t know whether the owner was onboard but I hope so for the sake of the possible delivery captain. It was probably not a killer whale but a blue whale and deinantly a p**sed off one.

The boat is a bit of a pain to take this way from Hawaii as it is an Alan Andrews designed ULD sled with a ver flat bow so I have been getting very little sleep as we have been going upwind for the last 5 days into very confused seas and the boat pounds really hard We have had to throttle back at night to about 5 knots at some points as I am afraid of delamination and rig problems. Very hard to do when really I would like to get home quicker so I can spend one night in my bed before going to LA.

 I have instilled rationing of chocolate on the boat as there has been a chocolate monster raiding the supplies. I catered for 2 bars per person per day and I have only had 5 this whole trip. We only have enough for 1 person per day now. Also rationing of hot chocolate. Always an annoyance to me as other people drink tea and coffee which we have a plentiful supply of but I only drink hot chocolate. People always end up deciding it would be nice to have something different and my supplies get depleted quickly.

 Tonight for dinner we have carnitas burritos with beans and rice. Costco has these great little packets of carnitas por already cooked and you reheat – tastes really good – good enough for a mid week dinner party!

The weather has been overcast and gray for the last few days so I forgot to put on sun tan cream today and my nose is now sore so time for aloe vera before my off watch. I am off from 9pm to 12 midnight and back on at midnight to 3am (horrible watch). Tomorrow however, is my shorter day of sailing and I think we will change our watches 3 hours forward tomorrow night as it is already pitch black here at 7:15pm.