Date/time: July 5, 2006, 12:00 local (z-9) Position at noon: 54D58'N 163D22'W 10 km from False Pass, Alaska Noon to Noon 139 nm, 256 km. Avg. speed: 5.8 kts Miles to False Pass: 6 miles Course bearing: 169D Sea state SSE swells 6 to 9' Wx: Wind SSE 20 to 40 kts (40 to 80km) Water temp: 10.0D C Crew: Ben, Brad & Kevin Remarks: So much for calm seas. Wind slowly picked-up all afternoon until 25 Kts (46 km) by midnight and 30 gusting to 40kts (75 km) by 08:00. Short, choppy seas. It was on the bow, and slowed us considerably, as well as pounded bad. Since Nome, going south, we have lost 3 hours, 9 minutes of sunlight, and a bunch of twilight to 17:11 of sunlight and darkness for a few hours at night now. We'll stop at the village of False Pass a day or two until better weather. -- Ben Gray Idlewild Custom Buehler 55 powered by a 55-hp Kubota Home port: Dunvegan, Alberta http://www.idlewildexpedition.ca http://dieselducks.com/Idelwild.html http://www.trawlersandtrawlering.com To follow Idlewild with Google Earth: http://tinyurl.com/ksnhg For the Trawler M/V JPEG version: http://tinyurl.com/ovdt7