Finally on the eighth day out we found the Westerlies and set course for Cape Flattery.
We actually sailed about 2600 miles
4th day our the wireless wind transmitter at the top of the mast quit, so Derek went up and brought it down to the cockpit.
We dropped the jib and sailed slowly under main alone to minimize motion to the extent possible in the Pacific swell.
Although it gave readings it failed to capture the real wind due to turbulence from the hull.
We eventually got a rather doubtful spare to run at the masthead.
As I tell our fisherman friends, we are not fishermen, we just tow a line with a lure and are thankful for what little we catch.
Weather forecast 10 days out.
We are nicely in the green (about 15 knots) and swinging nicely around the top of the calm of the dreaded North Pacific high.
The calm ahead of us narrowed as we advanced and we had decent winds until near Cape Flattery.
On eleventh day out we saw our first and only ship while on the high seas.
The weather had cooled down from two days before. No more shorts and bare chests.
We were now definitively out of the N trade winds.
When we saw them, we raised the centerboard to reduce risk of damage if they hit us, but had no problems.
There seemed to e 2 or 3 animals each time.
We saw dolphins several times, but they are hard to photograph as they play in the bow wave.
Videos of their graceful cavorting are much better.
