Wind, Wind Oh Please some Wind

It's been a very quiet day out here. We have been under power since just past midnight trying to get west out to the wind. We can motor for another 18 hours or so and then we drift. I understand that there may be wind out around 109W by noon tomorrow. The day was spent catching up on sleep, and generally both Cathy and I are both well rested and looking for wind. A few little jobs today, cleaning bird poo off the bow pulpit after our hitchhiker Boobie spent the night perched there pooing. I swear they are simply a whole bunch of poo wrapped up in feathers. OK it was cool to have a hitchhiker but after cleanup today I greased the pulpit and no birds tonight!! We have been keeping in touch with Toketie and they are drifting waiting for wind. As of 02:00 UTC, they were around 80 miles behind us. They however spent a lot of time motoring the first day so have to conserve now. They both are quite happy and waiting for wind in the sun and calm seas is like being at anchor without jetskis. Hmm maybe I'll shut the motor off. Depending on what happens with wind, we may be doing the same by tomorrow. Currently we are running reduced revs and with almost a knot of current with us we are making 4.5 knots good on our course to the Marquesas.
Yeah, there's wind. I came on watch at 08:00 UTC and we had enougvht wind to sail, so motor off after 25 ½ hours, hopefully for the next 10 days at least until we turn south.

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