Pacific Crossing, Day 13: Rough, squally weather last night and more today have made us tired. Lots of sail handling--reefing, gybing, unreefing--as the wind velocity and direction changes around the squalls. Feels like maybe the ITCZ swole up and swallowed us for awhile. We're moving again, a fast run down lumpy seas. Lumpy, Bumpy, Dumpy, Thumpy, Grumpy, and all the Seven Sea Dwarves have been here. But we got a nice freshwater rinse. To top things off, the propane solenoid stopped working, but once we emptied the cockpit locker, removed the cylinder and squirted the living daylights out of it with lube, it decided to work again. Yay! Hot food!
Critters have been active, too. This morning a 5 inch bug-eyed squid was peering through the plexiglass forward hatch, and there was a flying fish on the cabin sole. He must've bounced off the stove, given the angle it took to get in there. Like, WHOA! It bounced right where a frying pan might've been! If only a nice dorado would do that. Frying pan's on, heeeeere, fishy fishy...
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