Hey everyone at home -

I'm blogging for Kerkyra who is suffering from an acute case of sea sickness. She and several others.  We, on the Chieftain, have had a long transit from Crescent City to Coos Bay Oregon.  I think it tested several of us as we were head into the wind for most of 25 hours straight.   We were on a Swedish watch system which had us on watch for 6 hours, sleeping for 4 hours, on watch for 4 hours, sleeping for 6 and so on until we arrived.  All the while we were moving north into 20 knot plus headwinds and 8 foot seas at times.

 This really mixed up the food in our guts, and mixed up the rest of our body systems as well.  But, we all pulled together and persevered.  As for me, I made it through my midnight to 4 am shift by wathcing a glorious moon next to Scorpio rising and 161,742 stars (I had time to count them).  There was some singing, lots of joke telling, and lots and lots of silence.

 And, we have just arrived in Coos Bay, yet the Lady, which left almost 15 hours before us, still hasn't arrived and we've been here for about 4 hours. She moves slower than our boat, but this means our other classmates have been underway for more than 40 hours.  Wow.  I'm sure they'll have some stories.

 Hope you are all alive there and looking forward to your own trip.

 Until soon...

 Cynthia