I missed yesterday's update, and the honest reason is that yesterday was not a great day out here. Fatigue caught up with me a bit, and I found myself feeling lower than I usually do, so I gave the afternoon away to a reset and called that the day's accomplishment. That is part of this whole deal sometimes, and I would rather be honest about it than pretend the chart looks the same on every page.

It was not exactly a quiet day either. The whisker pole needed lines re-run, which is one of those small jobs that turns into a few hours when you do it alone in a moving cockpit. Then the rigger needed measurements, so up the mast I went, in conditions that were not ideal but also not getting any better. As soon as I clipped in, of course, a squall rolled through, and I got absolutely soaked while I was up there swinging around like a damp pendulum. I came back down, got dry, made a coffee, and had a quiet debrief with myself, the kind that does not require a lot of words.

Even on the harder days though, there is usually something moving in the right direction. I switched up the fishing gear, no luck yet, but it feels like a better setup. Time will tell. And I started sprouting lentils, which is a thing I have never done before but feels like a very solid offshore move. Fresh food out here, if it works, will be a real win.

This morning is a different story entirely. The weather has turned, the seas are down to about a meter or two, the wind is still behind us, and we are moving along nicely at about five knots. At this stage, five knots feels just fine. The engine is off, the sun is out, the solar is putting in a solid charge, and the systems are working with us instead of against us. I am sitting on deck doing the simple checks. Count the fingers. Count the toes. Reset the head. There are roughly fourteen hundred miles to go, which at five knots is about eleven days. There are eleven, maybe twelve, eggs left, which is probably the more honest metric. Today's job is simple. Recharge the batteries, both the boat's and mine, and keep moving forward.