08.17N 123.14W (due south of Vancouver BC, due west of Panama) Wind has picked up from directly astern, so we have a bit more swell, and as the stabilizers work harder to keep us comportable we’ve slowed down a bit, we ran 180 n. miles over the last 24 hours, but expecting something like 170-175n. miles in the next 24 hours with these conditions. Still looking to arrive sometime April 1 unless we slow down intentionally. My new hobby on night watch – see where in the world compares to our latitude and longitude. I made many trips to Penang Malaysia and it turns out we’re still 500 miles north of Penang’s position relative to the equator – for my friends in Penang we’re still enjoying the cool weather – high temp of 85F, low temp of 80F. While we worked hard to escape winter, we’re about to go back to winter in another 4 days. Troubleshooting a few things, after saying nice things about our Cruise Generator in the last post it’s now seems to want to “rest” after 15 minutes. Not critical as we can fire up the primary generator, so reading the hydraulics and cruise generator manuals and have a few emails out to our technical friends. Also noticing our engine temperature is pretty “warm” – 130F – plus trying to cool it down with the blowers and have the door open. Until tomorrow. [google-map-v3 width=”350″ height=”350″ zoom=”7″ maptype=”satellite” mapalign=”center” directionhint=”false” language=”default” poweredby=”false” maptypecontrol=”true” pancontrol=”true” zoomcontrol=”true” scalecontrol=”true” streetviewcontrol=”true” scrollwheelcontrol=”false” draggable=”true” tiltfourtyfive=”false” addmarkermashupbubble=”false” addmarkermashupbubble=”false” addmarkerlist=”8.2905,-123.2637{}cruiseship.png” bubbleautopan=”true” showbike=”false” showtraffic=”false” showpanoramio=”false”]