I am writing this from a position of 13° 48.68’ S, 161° 11.05’ W aboard s/v Carinthia. Today is Sunday, August 09, 2009. We left Bora Bora on Wednesday, August 5th for Suwarrow (pronounced Suvarov) and we anticipate arriving there tomorrow late morning. The captain picked a great weather window and we have had light winds and following seas of no more than 3 ft the entire time.
This has been my longest passage thus far and it has been very pleasant. It’s quite interesting getting used to seeing nothing but water, water, water for days on end and, when you stop to think about it, it is often over 14,000 ft deep. Because we’ve had mostly sunny days the water color is a gorgeous cobalt blue with just little wavelets on top that look like frosting.
I’ve had the primo watches. I’m on duty from 6-9 morning & night so I get to see the beautiful sunsets and sunrises. In addition, we have had a full moon so the moon rises have been pretty spectacular as well. Everyone else seems to be quite happy with their watches as well, but for me, this is perfect. Watches on this boat are quite pleasant. 
Generally we sit up on the flying bridge keeping a watch for any traffic (nothing so far), watching the instruments and listening to music or watching movies (there is a DVD player & over 300 movies on boar).
Some information about the boat: It is a 2008 44’ Lagoon catamaran. The owners are very fun people who we met in Marina del Rey on our way south. The boat is beautifully outfitted and maintained and has all sorts of extras that Chris & I are not used to. Think electric winches, chartplotter, WII, electric toilets (each of the 3 staterooms has a 
private head), watermaker. Our normal day begins with the morning net. Usually Chris makes coffee at the end of his watch (he has 3-6) but we fend for ourselves for breakfast. Most of the day is taken up with reading, doing little chores, napping, playing WII (Suzanne is into tennis and Chris & I have gotten a bit hooked on bowling). 5:00 is happy hour and that is followed by a gourmet meal at 6 with all crew eating together on the aft deck. As soon as dinner is over Dietmar disappears to rest up before his night watch and I head up to the flying bridge for my first watch.
So far we are having too much fun...and we've even managed to catch two tuna! Excellent!!
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