25 34.90N 137 39.52E

Hello All, We are officially out of the tropics as of early this morning. The trade winds usually end at 25 latitude in the North and in the South. The temperature is showing it also. The high today was a whopping 76 degrees and it got down to 71 degrees last night. The strong winds I predicted hit us late yesterday. We had everything reefed down and the wind had a lot of east in it so even though we saw gusts to 30 knots the ride was pretty comfortable. The seas followed the wind so we had 8 foot seas pushing us along. Today the wind has clocked into the southeast which is right on our stern. I only have the jib up with it poled out to keep it from calapsing when the boat rolls. It is not that comfortable rocking back and forth like a pendulum but we have the 20 knot wind and 8 foot seas at our back and we are making 5 plus knots. We are 460 miles out of Japan but I don't think this SSE wind is going to last. I guess we will see what happens tonight and tomorrow. Mother Nature always keeps it interesting. All is well on board and the Island is getting bigger in the window. That's all for now. PEACE