Night shift: passed a fishing boat about 300 feet to our port.
Rest of day: Left doldrums around 6am. Southern trades should be coming from SE. That would give us a nice run to the Galapagos. Downloaded GRIB files suggested wind would come from W. Wind initially came from SSE so we abandonded our previous waypoint and pointed to the Galapagos using slight thrust from motors to hold us as close to the wind as possible. Wind shifted gradually to SSW – the worst possible angle for us. I don’t want to end up north of the Galapagos so we’ve been motoring south, even SSE, for some time now. Bumpy horrible ride.
External entertainment came in the form of two seabirds who, for a while, fought over the port bow rail for night perch. Eventually they figured out there were other places to sit.
That’s all.
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