Low is Coming

I'm going to try and be brief because the motions here are not kind and I've been battling traces of seasickness the past couple days. The low pressure system is descending upon us today with 25 knot winds that have blown since dawn, heavy overcast skies, a slowly falling barometer, and the promise of slightly worse to come. Seas are obnoxious, but very manageable, and all-in-all this seems to be a gentle lead-in to my first storm in the North Pacific. What strikes me as odd is while we battle what must be described as a winter weather system at 36N the 2nd and 3rd tropical storms of the season churn down at 15N. Thus with summer firmly upon us we are somehow in the midst of a low with the threat of gale conditions to come. At least home is under 1200 miles and getting closer with each passing hour.
Yesterday was a nice, sunny day with steady fifteen knot winds and our first signs of human life in over a week. Spotted two separate tanker ships and two airplanes, and collectively cursed the fact that they will all be spotting land within 72 hours. Our landfall remains 10 days or more away. Also landed and released another 7 pound dorado (still had fish leftover to eat), and if you were to just look at the pictures from this trip you'd think we were on a fishing charter boat. Anyhow this lousy weather should only last 24 hours before leaving us with much nicer conditions, so hopefully I'll be in the mood to write more tomorrow.

June 29-1140 (Still on HI time)
36.28N by 140.46W

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