Day 223 Nice sailing

Our position at 0700 is S24º01 X E174º09. We traveled only 89 miles in the last 24 hours. In some ways, this is good as it allows us to wait for the next high pressure system to pass before we get too far south.
The sky cleared overnight and the waves diminished into an organized pattern of southern swells 4 to 6 feet high. This is the sailing that you see in the photos. Everyone on deck relaxing in the sun, reading a book while the boat swooshes ahead at 7 knots sending up small plumes of spray from the bow. The only thing slightly amiss is that we are all wearing long pants, sweatshirts and hats. Some are even wearing socks. Yes, the weather is definitely colder at this latitude.
Tonight Mark made another of his world-famous curries and we enjoyed a good dinner under the stars. As we get further south and as we move through the calendar, the position of the stars overhead changes. A month ago and in the tropics, Saturn was directly overhead in Scorpio. Now, Saturn is half way to the western horizon when the stars are first visible. The trade off is that Venus is now a very bright object in the early morning sky. Ah, the delights of the ancient mariner.