Slogging Slowly Sothwest

It's 03:30 and we have a bout 3 knots of wind and are doing a whopping 2 knots over ground. We had a great sail all day, 5-6 knots from the NW and then the sun went down and so did the wind. It's one of the things you just deal with. We are still moving and in the right direction. We know that wind will build again. There are a group of boats all within maybe 50-100 miles of each other. We talk a couple of times a day on the radio so I'm glad ours is working. The insulators are a real pain. The lower insulator is the problem and I still am wiping salt residue off of it. We took more salt spray than I thought the first night out. Anyhow, I have backup solution that I will start to build tomorrow with some extra rigging wire and some rubber lined clamps (sounds kinky don't it!). All in all it has been a relaxing day. I needed it to make up for yesterday. I was so frustrated trying to track down the problem. The thing was that I knew I wanted to talk to other people about it but without the radio, no one to talk to. A lovely catch 22.

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