One thing you can't help but appreciate about multihulls after sailing keelboats is the lack of tippiness. Even after being on the boat for over a week, it still amazes me just how convenient that is.
Sailing today has been ideal—moderate wind, perfect weather—and we found even better wind by heading further offshore than the rest of the fleet. Most of the day was spent with the spinnaker up (the tear re-opened, so we just sailed with it, calling our reefed spinnaker) doing 8-10 knots. We BBQ'ed the mahi mahi we got from Thor and Tanya on Meshach and had a civilized dinner of fish and chips (bagel chips) in the cabin while the autohelm drove.
As we're sitting there, the daggerboard starts humming as it does when the boat hits twelve knots or so. We look at each other thinking that this would be lunacy on most boats, yet it seemed so...unalarming. Better still is that we have dishes all over the table, glasses of wine, and all kinds of stuff on a shelf on the weather side of the boat. And it stays there!
88 miles to Cabo and we will be there ahead of schedule if this keeps up.
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