Day 21 - Friday 6/27/08
No wind. Motoring in a bright haze. 80 miles to go!
Breakfast: egg and pepper omelet. Lunch: Shared the last orange. Dinner: Last of the Mahi.
After a brief squall, the wind died last night, so now we are motoring at about 4-4.5 knots. We should arrive shortly after dark, but do not want to enter after dark with a strange harbor and the particularly tricky anchoring required at this bay, so we will probably hang well offshore until daybreak.
Beautiful sailing today, seas finally calm, flying our spinnaker and taking turns at the helm.
Addendum: As evening fell, we said heck with it - we are over this, and we are going in! It too forever to see Hilo's lights - saw nothing - no lights, no land, not even the 14,000-foot-high volcano until we were about ten miles away. Heavy cloud cover and a volcanic fog the Hawaiians call Vog.
We picked up the navigation lights without trouble, and motored quietly into tiny, dark, peaceful Radio Bay. We dropped the hook at 2300. It took us about 15-20 minutes to secure the boat - stow the chart, coil the lines, set the anchor lights. When we were settled, we poured a celebratory glass of wind and miracle of miracles! - when we set our glasses down, they did not move an inch! Life is good, God is great. thanks so much to all our loved ones for their prayers.
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