Sailing and some motoring

We had a beautiful day yesterday, hanging out in shorts and Tshirts, having water fights with the anchor spray down hose, enjoying frozen yogurt, and watching Lion King and Bug's Life. All of this while doing 7 knots under a full spread of sails in the ocean while we make our way to Isla Isabela. We are currently at:
N22 00.57
W106 20.86
29 miles out of the Isla. The wind died around 2200 yesterday and so we started to motor again. Haven't seen another boat. Not one. AIS has had 2 targets for the past 30 hours but they were 40 miles away. Dolphins at the boat last night around 2000 or so and they jumped out of the water with their silhouette outlining them among the stars. Just a sliver of moon last night and it was orientated in such a way that it was a perfect smile.
Max has been an absolute joy to have on the boat. The little kids are getting let off at Isabela if they don't chill. I kid. They have been great and we are having fun. They definitely want to get off the boat though and play in the surf. Hell, I want to do that!
It is fun watching Max handle himself around the adults and quite rightly thinks that he is one of them. He'll have occasional episodes of being a kid (rolling down the sand dune at Muertos. Got airborne! LOL!) which is a good thing. He has been helping Benny with his math and handling Sam with an ease that belies his years. He is going to be taking his finals soon.
Jen has been acting comfortable and seems to be enjoying this 280 mile trip on our floating little world. The conditions have been great but there always is a rolling while at sea (I constantly have Joan Jett's I love RocknRoll going through my head) and these are the conditions that haunted her in prior passages. So far, so good.
I have roared through most of my books so I started John Steinbeck's Sea of Cortez. Had me laughing out loud at his telling of the evil outboard motor that they brought with them. Good fun.



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