Day 14 Keep blogging

That slightly pale look
Our position - N09º33’ X W124º47 in NE wind still with 8 to 10 foot following sea.
Blogging - When I started the blog, I decided to use my Apple “dot Mac” account as the host. I did this so I could easily add pictures and text using an Apple program called iWeb. Unfortunately, this only works when I can connect to the Internet. Here at sea, the only connection we have is a very slow and tenuous e-mail which travels though the a ham radio signal to a land station where it is plugged back into the Internet.
In order to keep up the blog, I arranged with Tim to send him an e-mail with the text part of the blog and he would post it to the website. Once I get to the first landfall with an Internet connection, I will post all the photos.
Now that we are so far from the North American continent, the best radio connection is to Hawaii although that has also been weak. In addition, we need to make sure the boat’s batteries are charged since sending these radio transmissions takes a lot of juice.
The batteries get charged from our solar panels, from the generator and from the engine. Lately, the generator has not been working. Mark speculates that it is due to air in the fuel line. Fixing this involves bleeding the line which must be done under the rear locker and could involve some spillage of diesel fuel. With seas so rough and seasickness still factor, we elected to hold off on sending e-mail for a few days.
Note: It is OK to comment to the blog but please do not send e-mails to the boat address. The connection is so slow and the preamble to the e-mail is so long that it takes a lot of battery power to receive it. If you answer the blog, Tim will consolidate the comments into one e-mail.