and I take watches of three hours with six hours off. Our captain does not take a watch as he is always on call. Breakfast was coffee and toasted bagels with cream cheese and strawberry preserves. All the crew is up. An aircraft carrier to the east was on maneuvers and was in view for over two hours. It hailed us to get out of the way although he was over 6 miles away. We decided to comply. Other craft were hailed over the period and several times helicopters buzzed us. Perhaps we were a target in war games.
Kevin started up the Yanmar diesel wing engine, which overheated and was shut down. This smaller engine with its saildrive is our plan B if something happens to the main engine. The weather continues to be excellent.
For dinner Arenia made cheese and cracker appetizers followed by meatballs in Italian tomato gravy with roasted potato chunks on the side and fresh bread. Dissert was cheesecake. This was quite an accomplishment on a rolling boat.
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