He Hates It. She Loves It. Moody Days Sailing Across the Pacific Ocean.

Believe it or not, that is the moon. Man, just stunning. Wait for it. 8.7, getting about 7 1⁄2 to 9 knots. Little bit more, like closer to 9 1⁄2 when we're surfing down by the waves, but they're kind of coming at us from the sides and I'm catching that much. But, exciting to be moving. It's like the fastest we've moved in 4 1⁄2 days. It's been an ongoing battle with this spinnaker today. It's been, put it up and then take it down. We've got a storm cloud. Now the winds are too high, but now it's just right. And it feels oh, so good. Makes me happy. I don't know, no sleep. Just a little tired. Not 100%. Man, we had a little storm cloud. The wind started picking up. We were getting like 19 knots and of course we have the spinnaker out, so we had to hurry up and get that down. Which was a little bit violent, but nothing too bad. But man, it whipped the jesus out of my leg. You can't see it as much now, but it was bright red. Felt like when I was a little kid in my grandma used to like swab me with the fly swatter when I was being bad. Yay, I'm now a little excitement. Let's go back inside, buddy. Come on. 6.30 in the morning. No big deal. Hold on. So many suicides. And I can see a trail. One, two, three. It's a very moody, cloudy morning. 28 knots to go. Let's call that about, I don't know, a solid 20 days. So what the heck happened yesterday? Well, every time I tried to take a nap, we thought, oh, let's put up the spinnaker. Oh, no, the wind's changing. We gotta take down the spinnaker. Okay, now we gotta put a reef in the main, like just nonstop. So I didn't really get any sleep during the day. And then because I was trying to sleep, I forgot to eat lunch and that kind of made me feel hot. It's amazing how quickly it can all add up. You know, in my head I thought, oh, if it's a calm day and one might think that, oh, if it's a calm day, we can edit video or we can do some sort of meaningful work. But really, it's like groundhog day out here, you know? You wake up, you eat, you sleep. You brush your teeth, you shower. And that's about all you can expect. If you get anything else done, then, but if you don't, you don't. You can't push it too hard. I mean, we're out here for another 20 days or whatever, Oh, and I found a new setting on this camera that I can control the audio. So hopefully the audio is not blowing out like it's been for the past five days or whatever. That's one accomplishment for the day. And that's pretty good. Well, I've been out here manning the helm. Nikki's been really busy in here. I'm like, hey, seas are kind of rough. You know what I should do? I should clean and I should do some baking because those are all things you do when your house is rocking and rolling. Whatcha making? Some coffee cake, hopefully. And then I might do a batch of chocolate chip walnut cookies. Holy cow. But I figure it's life at sea, right? Like we're here for however many days, long time. So still have to keep the boat clean and still have to cook. And so life continues. Keeping myself busy. That's what I'm doing. That's good news for me. Blueberry and golden berry coffee. This is our nutty streusel topping. This is one of my favorite go-to coffee cakes. And I have the recipe on our website. I'll make sure and post a link to it in the description box. Okay. First one complete. How are things on the kiddie front? Uncle Leo? Happy? Yeah. And you, Singa? Yeah? How are you doing? All good? Curiosity to bed. We've got three turns on the Genoa, so it's brief. Have one on the main. It's been brief on the long main, nothing you can see. The sun has just set. And I think, right behind us, the moon will be coming up shortly and it will be absolutely spectacular. It should be a full moon. Oh man, here it comes, here it comes. Oh, it's gorgeous. Just a second, it's impossible for me to hold it. This is the kind of stuff that's so awesome about being out here. Well, our seats have kicked today and NASA, so can't complain too much about that. We're making it. 18, this is SpaceX. And so, of course, they're talking about the rockets and all the different programs that are going on. But specifically, the part that's cracking me up is they're talking about how they see, in the next decade, they're going to have. So you could fly halfway around the world instead of taking all being a 10, 12, 14 hour flight, you'd be a half an hour. Crazy, right? And the best part is, here I am, listening to this amazing technology about being able to take a rocket. You know, not a jet plane, a rocket from one point to another to get there as fast as humanly possible. And here I am, literally the slow boat, taking 20 days or 30 days to get to a destination that I could have flown to in a couple of hours. So there's that. You can give us all the technology in the world and sometime, we're still gonna choose the slowest form of transportation, just because it is about the journey and not the destination. Late night thoughts. See? This is like day seven and a half, kind of going on eight. For us at sea, it's the longest we've ever been at sea. Yeah. I'll say the same thing I said in the last long passage. It's not my favorite. It's a struggle. It's not that it's horrible. It's just not, I don't know, it's not enjoyable, I guess. I don't know. That's just the honest truth. If I'm being honest, I don't want to sell a lie. So yes, it is not my favorite way to travel, to take 30 days in this semi-uncomfortable sea. It's the little truth. All right. Okay, so. Hold on, hold on, hold on. No, no. All right, but that's, I know that's the way you feel right now, but is there anything about it that you do like? About passage making? Yeah, like being out here right now. The moon rise was pretty awesome last night. I tried to capture it on video, but it's like the boat's all, so you're going to be drunk if you, you're going to be like ocean drunk if you try to watch that, if I decide to keep that in there. Spending time with you, that's probably the best thing, yeah. It makes me feel bad though, because you work so hard and I'm a worthless piece of, No, you are not. You don't give yourself enough credit for everything you do. Can't do as much as you, you're so much stronger. Genetics, can't do anything about it. Sounds like a Taylor Swift song. And you? And me what? How do I feel about being out here? I'm a little tired today and I was yesterday, but other than that, I like it. I'm torn, but there are moments because it does make you feel a little useless sometimes because you can't be as productive because of the movement or you have to be at the helm because you have to pay attention or you have to at least be alert. So I'm a busy body, I guess. So I like to keep myself busy. But other than that, I like it. I like watching the sea. I think it's fascinating. I like sitting up front. I like watching the stars. I like seeing the moon. I like having the excuse to watch movies and listen to podcasts because there's not much else you can do. So I like it. Okay, I put the camera down. I'm gonna get seasick. Me too. Yay, yeah. I don't think it has a lot to do with sea state so much or maybe we're just settling into this new normal. I don't know. But I think it had to do more with sleep than anything. It's amazing what just a little bit of sleep deprivation will do to you. It messes with your head, but I felt like I slept really good last night or I don't know, daytime, whatever it was, whatever my sleeping time was. But it felt like it was good, solid sleep and now I'm feeling like a regular person again. I got creative between naps today. The water hits us from behind and it comes squashing in. So I clipped on this rug. It seems to be working so far so good. Because otherwise it's just getting water all in here. Everywhere, everywhere. But no more. That's my one thing for the day. I can go back to sleep. Yeah, good job. Woo! Crazy out here today. Just crazy I say. Lambs all around. Those are some funny things. He's been there for a bit. Did it get you? Yes. I hate salt water. I'm clean, damn it. So much for that shower. Yeah, I know. Let's see, turn around. Oh, you barely got hit. This is the scene so far. It's still nothing. Super intense, massive swells of water kind of come and go and the waves crashing. Yeah, I mean, it's a moody scene. It feels like you're out here. Well, I mean, I don't think, but watching the ocean move. It's doing its thing because this line, you know, with nature and make sure that we stay on the correct side of it. Watching the weather and so that we don't end up in a precarious situation. Because you can see how quickly they can go from like, OK, this is cool to absolutely terrifying. They always say, oh, respect the ocean, respect the ocean. Understand that.