Our Daily Routine at Sea

After 12 days at sea, we have gotten into a pretty comfortable routine aboard.

0500 - 0900 Dave on Watch
0735 Dave wakes Sherry for 0745 Radio Schedule
0745 Radio Sked with Infini
0830 Sherry on the Computer / Radio getting weather, etc
0900 - 1200 Sherry on Watch
Dave takes a 2 hr nap
1200 - 1600 Dave on Watch
Sherry takes a 2 hr nap, plans dinner
Dave attends to maintenance issues
1600 - 1930 Both up and about
Showers
Sherry cooks dinner
1700 Radio Sked with Infini
1800 Dinner
1915 Radio Sked with Visions
1930 - 2300 Sherry on Watch
Sherry gets updated weather info
Sherry checks in with Pacific Seafarer's Net
2300 - 0200 Dave on Watch
0200 - 0500 Sherry on Watch

We chose a 3 hour nighttime watch schedule, over a 4 hour one, because it gives each of us 2 3-hour blocks of off-watch time to sleep. With a 4 hour schedule, one of us would get 2 off-watch period and the other only 1.

Dave Chats with Other Boats On Passage
We seem to be getting adequate sleep, with the 2 blocks of sleep time during the night, catnaps during our watches, and a 2 hour nap during the day.

We've ended up with 4 different times on the radio during the day. That may seem a lot, but when it's you're only contact with other human beings, it's a social thing, as well as a safety thing (exchanging positions, weather information, etc).

We are now 310 miles away from Easter Island. At our overall average speed, we'll get there about 2am on the 16th. But we are expecting the wind to gradually die off over the next couple of days, and so expect landfall around dawn on the 16th.

Our friends on Infini are still a little over a day ahead of us. And Visions of Johanna is still at Easter Island (and getting tied of the rolly anchorage).
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At 3/13/2010 6:17 PM (utc) our position was 21°56.16'S 106°20.83'W