Call Tuesday night:
Coby reports "almost a following sea. some wind. not big waves but very close together 4' a lot of little pushes to the side."
He saw albatross again.
He is loving the camera (this is new for him). Sunsets are the big event. They are not all that red, because there is no pollution, but to see so much of the sunset sky is amazing.
He is so far west, and we are all so near to Solstice, that at 10:19 he could still see the last glow of sunset.
On the shortwave he had gotten Australia, New Zealand and Honolulu stations, as well as the Voice of Russia. The latter had an interesting program on a 14th century archeological site in downtown Helsinki.
He has the solar panel out, and did an hour and a half of pedaling, but still didn't bring up the battery enough. So he is using an 8 pack of AA batteries to run everything, including his tri-colored light. (For you landlubbers, the red, green and white lights give other boats information about whether he is coming or going, partly by telling them what side of the boat they are looking at)
At night, it has often been cloudy, but one night he said that the "Milky Way was as broad as I've ever seen it."
Last night, the smallest sliver of the new moon, low in the west.
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