Two thirds of the way there

I have to say I was a bit anxious as we left. I had a crew to look after, all of us doing our first ocean passage and a rough first day forecast, The forecast was for 10 to 12 foot swells and 15-20K winds. I had no idea how Rumaway would preform in these conditions and of course it was planned overnight. The good thing about night is that given it is pitch black you cannot even see the waves. The boat handled well and Andrew was a bit seasick but seemed to recover in a few hours. Morning came and I was amazed at the size of the swell that we have worked our way through. On a passage you sail 24 hours a day and we do 3 hour on and 3 hour off shifts. It works that Andrew does 9- midnight, Juan Carlos does midnight to 3 am and I do 3 am until usually 9 or 10 when they wake up. Sleep is hard, the boat is moving, loud banging of waves and all kinds of other boat noises. If you get in 2-3 hours solid it a good night, otherwise you sneak in a nap or two during calmer periods. At night we use Radar and a systems called AIS to help see other boats but not every boat shows up so you need to be checking for boats every 15 minutes or so as a large tanker goes 5-6X faster than you can can come up fast. I had one situation where I had 4 boats all crossing me from different directions at once. We were on the radio trying to figure out would go where. Andrew has his fishing rods out during daylight hours. SO we have brought in a Bonita, Mahi Mahi (Which I dropped by not gaffing it property) and a very good Albacore Tuna. The rest of the time is reading, messing with sails, napping, and preparing food. We have around2 more days to go but the trip has been everything I had hoped fr and even more. The weather has cooperated, the crew is amazing, food has been good and I have LOVED the sailing!