10.10.07,
Wednesday, Coral Sea, weather the same, 0030 UTC : 13 19 S, 157 56 E

Still little wind, but I went little more north to get into a sub tropical current which is helping me towards west ( north west). The passage seems to be slow but very pleasant. The sun is shining. The fish is drying. I enjoy the calmness because on the first leg of my trip in fact I did not have any time to get a rest. The weather on the Pacific was difficult for most part, lots of little repairs needed to be done almost every day, everything was damp and I hardly ever got a good sleep.
So now finally I get to listen to music to relax not to get over the tiredness; finally I have the time to think over things which were waiting long time for me to have time to think them through; at last I have time to read some books - some of them were waiting years for me to do it. I think I took a whole library with me by plane from Poland about solo sailors ... because it is a different to read their stories on a shore and imagine them and it is different to be doing " the same thing" and comparing the experience. For example Leaonid Teliga who was the first polish person to sail solo around the world in the 1960s. He was so incredibly tough and the amazing things he went through. I could not have done as well as he did. And this feeling I had since I was about 10 years old and I would go for some classes to a school named after him. You would see me staring at his black and white huge picture over the halls of the building not even realizing one day he would become my hero.
Or for example other Polish solo sailor 4th in the history to sail non stop around the globe. Funny we used to do the same thing before leaving on hour trips. He says in the book:
"The thing what took me the most time preparing for the trip was a mental training. For many years, when the wind was blowing behind the windows in the night I would imagine that I am by myself in the middle of the ocean. Alone, among huge waves. At the beginning I was terrified just thinking about it, but finally I got used to the feeling."
Well, I live very close to the Baltic sea and from my room you can hear when the storm is on. Often I would lie in my bed horrified with the same thought. Then the scaredness was overtaken by curiosity....

But changing the subject, did you hear about some guy, name I can not recall right now. he was sailing on a very little boat to see his wife and he caught a shark to make her a bracelet. The shark thrashing on deck destroyed his cabin roof so the very next storm flooded the boat. In a frenzy of bucketing the water out he chucked away all his food and navigational instruments then almost died because of this ... what a story and apparently a true one. Life of a sailor is so hard sometimes :)... but at the same time how romantic isn't it? All for woman, ech we love it, don't we?
ps. I dried the fish for the first time in my life. It turned out little too salty and gives me runs but i love it anyway :)