Today is Monday, the 15th of May. We have been traveling, nonstop from Cabo to Ensenada, Mexico. Except for a short period of quite rough seas, things have been going very well. At 12:00 today, as I write this email, the weather is great. Seas maybe one foot, on top of 4 to 6 ft swells. The swells are very long period, coming from the northwest. Wind is less than 3 knots, on the nose. The motion is very nice, and we all slept great last night. The night before was very rough. We put everything on the floor, as it was going to end up there anyway. Aboard Que Linda, we have a device that tells us how bad it really is. There is a bell, mounted on the cabin wall, in the pilot house. On a few, very rough occasions, we have rung the bell. During the worst time, I was not aboard. It was Bob and Hal on a crossing from Panama to Roatan the first time. The bell almost rung off the wall. They slowed to 4 knots, and it was still bad. During the start of the NAR in 2004 we rang the bell several times as we departed Fort Lauderdale, into square 6 ft seas. And for only the third time in six years, and about 25,000 miles at sea, the bell rang once. But today, all is forgotten and we are rested again. Bob slept thru the alarm, for the first time ever. I should add, that he was not late for his watch, but Hal called him on the phone, to check on him. We also have one other problem, the watermaker has died again. This time it is down for the count. Hal and I opened up the unit again, and the circuit board is fried. One of the devices is melted, and needs to be replaced. Hal sent an email to his office in Seattle, and we hope a new circuit card will be on the way to Dana Point. We plan to be there Thursday afternoon. We can replace the card, but Hal will have someone check out the whole watermaker, if we have time. We should be off to Marina Del Ray on Saturday. The plan, from the start, was to be out of Mexico, by the 15th of May. We will miss that by two days. And to be in Seattle by the 1st of June. That date should be safe, and we might even beat it. There is a Trawler Fest in Poulsbo, Washington on the 8, 9 and the 10th of June and we all plan to attend aboard Que Linda. My wife, Patty, I remember her, will be back from Chile on the 11th. I forget at give web links and other information. Hal Wyman web page, including Que Linda Trip log http://www.halwyman.com Miles to go to Ensenada 76, 9 hours plus Position 30 37.7N by 116 16.6W We are out of the tropics, and the water temperature is all over the place. It is 66 degrees, you must admit that is strange, it was 60 two days ago. We are going north, and the water is getting hotter. Wayne Almquist Aboard Que Linda 76 miles south of Ensenada, Mexico