Last Day (hopefully)

Today has been pretty damn good, the only time we had less than 12 kts of wind was around four in the morning, we haven't been going exactly where we want to because of the direction of the wind but we've been going fast. Also the boat we were chasing yesterday, Pau Hana, for a while looked like it way away from us, but it turns out they screwed the pooch big time and went way off to the east so we should be passing them pretty soon. We had our second malfunction of the trip last night at three, our first being the generator not starting, but that wasn't really a big deal because we just used the engine to charge the batteries. Anyway this morning at three one of screws holding the vang to the boom fell out which immediately caused the other to sheer off so we had run a piece of rope to the back of the mast to hold the vang in place. We should be crossing the line in a couple of hours and we are all looking forward to eating on dry land tonight and taking a shower.